Re: [PATCH] Easy patch (help out!): preserve wireless-enabled and networking-enabled

[Alexander Sack <asac ubuntu com>]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:47:11AM -0400, John Mahoney wrote:
>    On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Dan Williams <[1]dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> 
>      On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 20:02 +0100, Witold Sowa wrote:
>      > Dan Williams pisze:
>      > > 2) I guess we should leave the config file bits alone and do
>      > > an /etc/NetworkManager.state file instead?
>      >
>      > It's probably quite a distribution specific issue, but shouldn't we
>      > store the state in /var instead of /etc ?
> 
>      Yes, was checking into that. �/var/lib apparently *must* persist across
>      reboot, so I believe we should do:
> 
>    What standard is that based on?� I am not disargeeing it is just that I
>    have never heard this stated before.� I happen to work in an environment
>    that tries to minimize writes and we map all of /var to a tmpfs.� I am not
>    saying this is the norm but was courious what the source was you were
>    basing this on.

Thats a bogus setup ... /var on tmpfs is wrong ... /var/cache/ and /var/log on tmpfs
is ok ... /var/tmp/ i was told is also technically wrong to be a tmpfs, but probably
won't break systems.

 - Alexander