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Date:      Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:41:06 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, des@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d early.sh
Message-ID:  <20071012004106.GA52258@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <902.1192082681@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0710101744420.8687@qbhto.arg> <902.1192082681@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 06:04:41AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 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.

As I mentioned in another email - it is tweaking drive parameters that I
needed it in one case.  That it seems necessary may mean I'm missing the
currently intended way - what would that be?

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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