From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 10 13:31:58 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A758537B401 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:31:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phk.freebsd.dk (phk.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AF4043F85 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:31:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (port757.uc1-esp.isdn-lan.cybercity.dk [212.242.98.245]) by phk.freebsd.dk (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h6AKVtV3068810; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:31:55 GMT (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6AKVBTC004174; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:31:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) To: "Daniel C. Sobral" From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:22:57 -0300." <3F0DCB21.1060704@tcoip.com.br> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:31:11 +0200 Message-ID: <4173.1057869071@critter.freebsd.dk> cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: FreeBSD-rc@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: support for mounting md(4) based filesystem at boot [PATCHES] X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:31:58 -0000 In message <3F0DCB21.1060704@tcoip.com.br>, "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: >Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: >> +-------[ Poul-Henning Kamp ]---------------------- >> | >> | I think we need somebody to reconsider how we configure our filesystems >> | in the future, in order to avoid a confusion of config files whose >> | interrelationship users will have no chance of figuring out. >> | >> | We have CCD, GBDE, MD and in the future likely other technologies for >> | configuring the underlying devices, we have FSCK, UFS and NFS and >> | other filesystems to mount. >> | >> | Somebody must be able to come up with some creative stuff here... ? >> >> We want .... >> >> A REGISTRY! >> >> Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! > >Bah. Add a prerequisites field to fstab with all the filesystems that >must be mounted before that one can be mounted. That's not enough. I have filesystems I don't want fscked/mounted until after sshd will accept my login for instance (I hate waiting for a fsck of /home/ncvs...) (Yes yes yes, bgfsck improves things a bit). Please don't hack /etc/fstab yet another time, please try to do it in a future-proof way (which doesn't suck) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.