From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 12 09:07:46 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1033) id 600CF16A41B; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:07:46 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:07:46 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev To: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-ID: <20071012090746.GA72088@FreeBSD.org> References: <902.1192082681@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <902.1192082681@critter.freebsd.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: Doug Barton , cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, David O'Brien , src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, des@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d early.sh X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:07:46 -0000 On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 06:04:41AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message , 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. So maybe nuke it so people won't accidentally use it again? ./danfe