Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:12:03 +0300 From: Mike Makonnen <mtm@identd.net> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: proposal: etc/rc.d/initdiskless -> /etc/rc.initdiskless Message-ID: <20050227131203.GA3172@rogue.smit.lan> In-Reply-To: <20050224221257.GA655@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20050224221257.GA655@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 02:12:57PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote:
> I would like to propose that we move the initdiskless script out of rc.d
> and back into /etc. The reason for doing this is that initdiskless is
> really about bootstrapping /etc from a minimial configuration. Thus
> running it via rcorder is really running it too early.=20
^^^^^^^^^
I think you mean too late, right?
> By moving it to
> /etc and running it directly from /etc/rc (possiably conditionally based
> on the existance of /conf) we fix this issue. The main benefit of this
> is that /etc/rc.d can now be modified or created entierly from entries
> under /conf which could make it easier to maintain extra scripts in the
> main flow of rc.d.
>=20
> The change to /etc/rc would look something like:
>=20
> diff -u -p -r1.335 rc
> --- rc 8 Oct 2004 14:23:49 -0000 1.335
> +++ rc 24 Feb 2005 21:02:18 -0000
> @@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ HOME=3D/
> PATH=3D/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> export HOME PATH
> =20
> +if [ -d /conf ]; then
> + /etc/rc.initdiskless
> +fi
> +
This is too generic. Isn't there some way of definitely knowing
whether this is a diskless boot?
> . /etc/rc.subr
> =20
> # Note: the system configuration files are loaded as part of
>=20
>=20
> Does anyone have major objections to this change? The goal is to run
> initdiskless as early as possible so /etc can be as minimal as possible
> at that point.
Sounds ok to me.
Cheers.
--=20
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