Subject: Re: CVS commit: src
To: M Graff <explorer@flame.org>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 07/26/2006 21:39:54
Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 07:55:58PM -0500, M Graff wrote:
>> Matthias Scheler wrote:
>> > - XML config file /var/db/btdev.xml.
>> 
>> Shouldn't this be in /etc if it is really a configuration file?
>
> IIUC, it's recorded state, and that state remembers a combination of
> configuration commands given to the various programs, and negotiated
> bondings and similar device interactions.  You're not meant to edit it
> directly, although it's legible and editable if it turns out to be
> necessary for debugging or similar purposes.
>
> Fits /var/db pretty well, if that's really the case.

If it configures the kernel and survives reboots I'm not sure that it
should be in /var/db except for a few trivial things like ntp.drift
which really is not per se configuration.

Perry