Jim Murphy <srlinuxadmin@???> escribió:
[...]
> UNIX and lookalikes have been able to boot into single user mode
> with a small root filesystem without the need for /usr, /var or ...
> There are still admins that have split any number of these directories
> into their own filesystems for various reasons. I guess you can call
> these use-cases. By placing the init systems in /var we again remove
> another choice for admins/users. If we are about choice, then /var
> may not be the best place to put inits.
[...]

For sure my installations have /var separated, to avoid
/var/log/syslog growing enough to fill / and thus causing the system
to fail.

The only things I consider to be on root filesystem are:
/ (obviously)
/etc
/lib
/bin
/sbin

Not even /boot, which I use to have in a separated partition
independently in each hard disk, while all the others are in a
replicated RAID among all disks.

From this, I derive that init system files should be in /etc
(configuration) and /sbin (executables). For the sake of keeping
things as they are, shell scripts could continue in /etc as in
/etc/init.d so I strongly raise hand for /etc/orc or /etc/wtf-is .

Regards

Noel
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