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Date:      Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:04:41 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, des@FreeBSD.org, David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d early.sh 
Message-ID:  <902.1192082681@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:13:36 MST." <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0710101744420.8687@qbhto.arg> 

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In message <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0710101744420.8687@qbhto.arg>, Doug Barton writes
:

>If you truly want to run something literally before everything else, we'd 
>have to create something new, which perhaps is what you were getting at 
>above. Before we add such a thing though, I'd like to get an idea of why 
>it would be needed.

I originally added /etc/rc.early to have a way to do things that
needed to happen before fsck, such as arming watchdogs, tweaking
drive parameters or get crypto key material necessary for filesystem
access.

None of these things seems necessary today.

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