[oe] Making /var/lib persistent

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 18:00 +0300, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
> Hello Jamie,
> 
> Thursday, April 19, 2007, 4:49:50 AM, you wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 07:24:15AM -0700, Koen Kooi wrote:
> > [...]
> >> Sound like a good idea, do you have a patch for this?
> 
> > Try this out:
> 
> >   http://twibble.org/dist/oe/var-volatiles-1.patch
> 
> > I've tested it locally both with and without tmpfs mounted on
> > /var/volatile and all seems to work as expected.
> 
>         Any news on this? I've been running with this patch soon since
> its original post and don't see any issues. One small nuisance is that
> ls -l /var/log doesn't show what you want, but hardly something can be
> done about that, plus shell completion uses /var/log/ immediately.
> 
>         I suggest committing this patch.

The idea sounded sane to me when I read about it so if its working, I
say go for it...

Cheers,

Richard