Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 13:28:12 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: wollman@freefall.cdrom.com, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-sbin@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/dumpon Makefile dumpon.8 dumpon.c Message-ID: <199505122028.NAA01958@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199505121940.MAA05182@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at May 12, 95 12:40:41 pm
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> > > > I vote for this change to stay. It is a lot cleaner that what we have. > > > > You don't have a vote in this matter, this is the decision of the release > > engineer, who has appointed that power to me. Just as you had veto power > > when you where release engineer. > > It's your call. > > Let me >inform< you that we can not go ahead with the planned "no extra > reboots needed" feature of sysinstall, unless I get your permission to > fix the swap-initialization. > > The problem is if you have no swapdevices, (as in "no freebsd-slice") > when you boot the floppy, then you cannot do a swapon. This is because > the swapdevices are tallied and sized before /sbin/init (which is stupid). > > This bit of initialization should be done as part of the first swapon(2) > call done. > > Let Jordan decide this one, he's the one doing sysinstall, and he will have > to cope with that reboot if we don't change it. > Agreed, the final decision is Jordan's I am just running a front for him since he does not have the time to watch the whole of the source tree. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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