sysvinit (2.88dsf-26) unstable; urgency=low Changes to the configuration and defaults of tmpfs filesystems: In version 2.88dsf-26 of the initscripts package, the RAMTMP setting from /etc/default/tmpfs defaults to "no". This means that a tmpfs will no longer be mounted on /tmp for upgrades or new installs. Set RAMTMP to "yes" to continue to use a tmpfs on /tmp. See tmpfs(5) for further details. -- Roger Leigh Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:55:45 +0100 sysvinit (2.88dsf-23) unstable; urgency=low Changes to the configuration and defaults of tmpfs filesystems: In version 2.88dsf-23 of the initscripts package, the RAMLOCK, RAMSHM and RAMTMP settings from the /etc/default/rcS file have been moved to /etc/default/tmpfs. These settings can not be automatically migrated. Please move these settings to /etc/default/tmpfs if changed from the defaults. In order to improve the default size limits of tmpfs filesystems, it is now possible to configure the size as a percentage of the total virtual memory. The default for /tmp and /run/shm is now 20%VM rather than 20% (RAM). A tmpfs will only be mounted on /tmp on systems with more than 64MiB RAM. -- Roger Leigh Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:30:37 +0100 sysvinit (2.88dsf-17) unstable; urgency=low In version 2.88dsf-17 of the initscripts package, the /etc/mtab file used to record which filesystems are mounted has been replaced with a symbolic link to /proc/mounts. The tmpfs filesystem mounted on /lib/init/rw has also been removed, with all packages using /lib/init/rw having switched to using /run. The migration process means that it will not be possible to automatically remove the /lib/init/rw directory until after the release of wheezy. However, it is safe to manually remove the directory, which is no longer owned by the initscripts package. Note that old init scripts in deleted (but not purged) packages may continue to use /lib/init/rw; it is recommended that these packages be fully purged. -- Roger Leigh Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:24:04 +0000