Re: Patch: timed progressbar for plymouth-plugin-spinfinity

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

David Zeuthen (davidz redhat com) said: 
> On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 23:26 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > Better be somewhere under /var. It's not a config option after all.
> 
> Actually /var/lib/plymouth or something. However
> 
>  - /var might be read-only so you need to gracefully handle errors
>  - /var might be mounted pretty late in the boot process
> 
> So maybe /etc isn't such a bad place after all; IIRC it's guaranteed to
> be on the root file system anyway.

If /var's read-only, /etc is almost certainly read-only as well. Outside
of that, once you get to the end of the plymouth run, /var will be mounted.

Bill