Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 12:53:52 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>, Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net>, Jeff Fisher <jeff@jeffenstein.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is needed in /stand Message-ID: <v04220802b50e28409e3c@[194.78.233.215]> In-Reply-To: <20000403123751.B94441@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000401004437.A6904@evil.2y.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004011039040.41431-100000@localhost> <20000401135701.A11341@evil.2y.net> <v0422080ab50c1240f6d9@[194.78.233.215]> <38E686A2.BC52FBA3@math.missouri.edu> <v04220814b50d4c7bd7cf@[194.78.233.215]> <20000403123751.B94441@mithrandr.moria.org>
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At 12:37 PM +0200 2000/4/3, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: >> Processes that need to make use of /tmp during the boot process, >> but before /usr is mounted will bomb out. This may keep the system >> from booting, etc.... > > As has been previously mentioned, a "dummy" /usr/tmp on the root > filesystem usually handles this. If you're going to do this, you might as well make /tmp a mount point and mount a real filesystem (or an mfs) on top of it later in the boot stage. Either way you end up with the potential that there may be files stored in the root filesystem "underneath" and hidden by the filesystem mounted on top of it (thus wasting space), and it's almost certainly likely to be a lot less confusing if /tmp is an explicit separate filesystem than if you have a shadow /usr. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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