[Vserver] Re: Bug#378673: problem when /var/run/service is readonly inside vserver

From: Alexander GQ Gerasiov <gq_at_cs.msu.su>
Date: Wed 19 Jul 2006 - 08:39:45 BST
Message-ID: <58344.87.228.51.104.1153294785.squirrel@eol.lvk.cs.msu.su>

<quote from="Ola Lundqvist">
> Hi
>
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 03:43:15PM +0400, Alexander Gerasiov wrote:
>> Ola Lundqvist wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > First of all this is not a bug in util-vserver. It is at most
>> > a bug in mysql-server, but in this case it is not that either.
>> No, it isn't. Mysqld works fine, the problems I have is in scripts wich
>> clean /var/run on vserver start.
> Yes, but that is what you can expect from any files under /var.
>
> See the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS), chapter 5::
> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html
> So in terms of this util-vserver do exactly what is expected from
> a virtual server.
Yes, I know FHS a little bit, and don't mind against "Files under this
directory must be cleared", but I'm not sure, that it should stop booting
(running vserver) if cleaning fails for some of that files.

[...]
>
>> As you can see the only problem I have is that command "vserver bigfoot
>> start" fails if there is read-only fs mounted somewhere inside /var/run.
>
> But that is what you can expect, as /var/run is supposed to contain
> read-write data, at least according to the standard.
>
> But upstream vserver people may of course have another view and then
> I'll reopen this bug.
Ok, thanks.

-- 
Regards, Alexander
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