Bug 1017683

Summary:	/var/run should not be separate filesystem from /run
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed	Reporter:	Juha Virtanen <jiivee>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	E-mail List <yast2-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED FEATURE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	aschnell, igonzalezsosa, jiivee
Version:	Current
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Juha Virtanen 2017-01-01 08:37:17 UTC

Tumbleweed installation allows (like all other Suse versions) to create /tmp, /run, /var/lock and /var/run as separate tmpfs filesystems.

Recently (sometime on last November) Tumbleweed behaviour changed so that many things don't work or are very slow, if /run and /var/run are separate. See <https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/521509-X-broke-gt-after-new-intall-KDE-is-slow> for more info.

Solution for experienced problems was to remove entry for /var/run from /etc/fstab and leave bind mounting /var/run to /run for systemd boot process.

If using btrfs, there is no sense creating /var/run as subvolume, as it either is not used (overridden by bind mount) or it hides bind mount causing all sorts of problems described of which some were described in separate forum post, see link above.

Comment 1 Imobach Gonzalez Sosa 2017-01-03 15:22:46 UTC

Stefan, what's your POV about this? Thanks in advance!

Comment 2 Stefan Hundhammer 2017-01-09 10:25:17 UTC

The current list of subvolumes was requested by product management. I have no strong feelings about removing or adding yet another one. Furthermore, they are now configurable in control.xml, so it's up to the project/product/release manager of each product how to handle this.

But the root of the problem appears to be somewhere else, so IMHO it's not really useful to micro-optimize the symptom. But that is beyond the scope of YaST.

Comment 3 Arvin Schnell 2017-01-09 11:04:19 UTC

AFAIS the reporter wants to disallow users to create filesystems in
the expert partitioner with certain mount-points, e.g. /var/run.

Please make a feature requets for that (fate.opensuse.org).