RFC: Move PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR for filesystems outside the filesystem
Got a bug related to this that probably only affects our build environment, but it caused me to note:
When we're using export/dist as a user-mode NFS root (under pseudo), the PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR is export/dist/var/pseudo.
This seems a bit weird to me -- I don't think pseudo's db should be part of the filesystem it's maintaining. And I'm wondering whether there is a historical reason for this that I need to be aware of, before I propose moving it to something like export/pseudo.
... And if not, I propose we move it to something like export/pseudo.
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Listen, get this. Nobody with a good compiler needs to be justified.
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Got a bug related to this that probably only affects our build environment, but it caused me to note:
When we're using export/dist as a user-mode NFS root (under pseudo), the
PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIRis export/dist/var/pseudo.
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This seems a bit weird to me -- I don't think pseudo's db should be part of the filesystem it's maintaining. And I'm wondering whether there is a historical reason for this that I need to be aware of, before I propose moving it to something like export/pseudo.
... And if not, I propose we move it to something like export/pseudo.
The NFS export scripts and such expect the pseudo DB to be available to them. The filesystem can be anywhere the user wants, so somehow we have to know where it was extracted, and the only answer we came up with at the time was to put the pseudo database into the filesystem directory. It doesn't cause any harm to the target that is being booted, and it ensures that the NFS server setup scripts know where the both the root and pseudo DBs are located.
--Mark
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