From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 22 22:07:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA21144 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 22:07:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA21139 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 22:07:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id EAA13927; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 04:10:49 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199810230310.EAA13927@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Request for change... To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 04:10:49 +0100 (MET) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199810222112.OAA00926@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Oct 22, 98 02:11:45 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I don't think it's suitable for general consumption, no - there is too > much of your local policy embedded in this. > > I'd keep it local, or perhaps see if you can't come up with a generic > hook mechanism that's called out very early, and do everything inside > that (optional) hook. of course, i did not mean to commit things in the current form: > > Do i have permission to work on this stuff for inclusion in -stable > > and/or -current ? but just elaborate it and come up with something much simpler and generic along these lines: very near the beginning of /etc/rc, figure out if this is a diskless machine and set a variable. make fsck/mount/swapon contitional on this variable, and call some alternate procedure from say rc.diskless for these actions. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message