Na página da Wikipédia no Padrão de hierarquia do sistema de arquivos :
Modern Linux distributions include a /run directory as a temporary filesystem (tmpfs) which stores volatile runtime data, following the FHS version 3.0. According to the FHS version 2.3, this data should be stored in /var/run but this was a problem in some cases because this directory isn't always available at early boot. As a result, these programs have had to resort to trickery, such as using /dev/.udev, /dev/.mdadm, /dev/.systemd or /dev/.mount directories, even though the device directory isn't intended for such data. Among other advantages, this makes the system easier to use normally with the root filesystem mounted read-only.
Portanto, se você já criou um sistema de arquivos temporário para /run
, vincular /var/run
a ele seria a próxima etapa lógica (em vez de manter os arquivos em disco ou criar um tmpfs
separado).