From owner-cvs-sbin Fri May 12 13:29:41 1995 Return-Path: cvs-sbin-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA21243 for cvs-sbin-outgoing; Fri, 12 May 1995 13:29:41 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA21225 ; Fri, 12 May 1995 13:29:13 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA01958; Fri, 12 May 1995 13:28:12 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199505122028.NAA01958@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/dumpon Makefile dumpon.8 dumpon.c To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 13:28:12 -0700 (PDT) Cc: wollman@freefall.cdrom.com, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-sbin@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199505121940.MAA05182@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at May 12, 95 12:40:41 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1236 Sender: cvs-sbin-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > > 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