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Date:      Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:52:03 +0100
From:      Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To:        Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
Cc:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, David Xu <bsddiy@163.net>, Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc
Message-ID:  <20010426105202.A35022@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010426011144.BFE4D3E2A@bazooka.unixfreak.org>; from dima@unixfreak.org on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 06:11:44PM -0700
References:  <200104260051.f3Q0pbv46632@earth.backplane.com> <20010426011144.BFE4D3E2A@bazooka.unixfreak.org>

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On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 06:11:44PM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote:
> Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> writes:
> >     Hmph.  I don't see how it could hurt since it amounts to the
> >     same thing that it was doing before, but why bother in the first
> >     place?  The original code was just fine.
>=20
> My guess is: for consistency.  The documentation says to do it that
> way, and not following that serves to confuse some newcomers (e.g.,
> "The docs say to do it this way, but how come /etc/rc doesn't?  Is
> there something wrong with the way in the docs?").  This patch
> actually closes a docs/ PR on the subject.

That's exactly it.  I talked to Jordan, who committed this stuff to
/etc/rc in the first place, who said he was unaware that vnconfig could
do the swapon itself, otherwise he would have used it.

N
--=20
FreeBSD: The Power to Serve             http://www.freebsd.org/
FreeBSD Documentation Project           http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/

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