* Mark 27e3kk302@sneakemail.com [20070125 03:15]:
I never thought Linux was so breakable. We're moving mount points into RAM for performance ( /var/log /var/run /var/lock etc. ). Tmpfs or ramfs can stop disk thrashing and speedup a system. (Flash USB needs it even more, to minimize writes.)
Example fstab,
But....brittle /etc/init.d scripts fail without having their private subdirectories persist across boots, in certain places like /var/log and /var/run.
If you write or test init.d scripts, please test with tmpfs and ramfs - do not assume pre-existence of application directories.
If I understand you right you are blaiming initscripts with daemons that log to something like /var/log/$FOO/bar.log and complain if /var/log/$FOO does not exist? Well, that's something you cannot work around that easy...
If you mean something different please provide boot messages/errors (screenshots would be ok for me too) so we can take a closer look at it (even though that's not a grml specific problem but of Debian in general).
"Mounting an empty directory through tmpfs" to something like /var/log has to fail if you don't take further actions. Ah, looks like you are searching for overlays via unionfs. :)
regards, -mika-