Re:runit Linux: Guide to Unix Init Scheme with Service Super...
by msarnoff on Monday November 17, 2025 @03:48AM
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I've done small embedded Linux systems and it makes me so happy that there is a (mostly) compatible implementation built into busybox. svlogd's rotation and size capping makes it great when using limited-lifespan nonvolatile storage like eMMC.
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Re:runit Linux: Guide to Unix Init Scheme with Service Super...
by fullstop on Monday November 17, 2025 @09:14AM
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I do the same thing, although as "embedded" systems get bigger I've moved some things over to systemd.
It's a little complicated to set up if your root file system is read-only, since runit really wants to write to the disk, and you must set up symlinks pointing to tmpfs.