From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 22 10:23:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87C0E37B402; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 10:23:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.5) with SMTP id g1MINCD61500; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 13:23:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 13:23:12 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Brooks Davis Cc: "David O'Brien" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: changes to rc.diskless* In-Reply-To: <20020222095225.A6604@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 08:00:51PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > > The use of an MFS /var should also be settable. Otherwise installing > > ports(packages) is just a total PITA. > > I had issues with the MFS /var and /tmp[0] a couple days ago and changed > the code to move the "mount -a" up before /var and /tmp creation and > then actually test to be sure they are not writable before attempting to > create MFS versions. The logic was basicly: > > if touch /var/_writable_test; then > rm /var/_writable_test > else > #create MFS var > fi > > -- Brooks > > [0] I've got a slightly strange configuration with network booting > cluster nodes which have a disk for /tmp, /var, and swap. One of the problems I have with a similar configuration is that the file system checker never runs for local filesystems mounted on writable disks. I tend to mount everything nfs and mfs, except for a scratch drive and swap, which are from the local hard disk. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message