[oe] Making /var/lib persistent

Erik Hovland erik at hovland.org
Mon Apr 16 22:40:41 UTC 2007


On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 12:02:03AM +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Marcel Holtmann just pointed me to the fact that OE mount /var as
> tmpfs for almost all machines, which wipes /var/lib at boot, which
> will break bluez and dpkg.

Heh, Todd Blummer brought up this very issue on the familiar dev list.
Note we have done nothing about it either.

The FHS is clear that this directory is the place to save app state
info, so keeping that dir across boots and suspend/resume cycles is
handy.

E

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