diff --git a/meta-google/recipes-phosphor/initrdscripts/obmc-phosphor-initfs/whitelist b/meta-google/recipes-phosphor/initrdscripts/obmc-phosphor-initfs/whitelist
index f914950..cc4906c 100644
--- a/meta-google/recipes-phosphor/initrdscripts/obmc-phosphor-initfs/whitelist
+++ b/meta-google/recipes-phosphor/initrdscripts/obmc-phosphor-initfs/whitelist
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@
 /var/google
 /var/lib/phosphor-inventory-manager
 /var/lib/smbios/smbios2
+/var/log/state