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Date:      Tue, 27 Jul 1999 09:59:39 +0200
From:      Alexander Maret <maret@axis.de>
To:        'Greg Lehey' <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Which /etc-files do I need until vinum is initialized?
Message-ID:  <91DA20EC3C3DD211833400A0245A4EA9BA10A9@erlangen01.axis.de>

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Hi,

thanks for your answer. I'll try and remove /etc/ttys and
/etc/gettytab as well. I'm not so sure about /etc/login.conf because
I already tried to remove it and at boottime the system 
began to whine about a missing class (daemon). Well, the 
system booted and all daemons were running but I'm not sure
which effect the missing class has.

Regards,
Alex


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Lehey [mailto:grog@lemis.com]
> Sent: Dienstag, 27. Juli 1999 09:43
> To: Alexander Maret
> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Which /etc-files do I need until vinum is initialized?
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, 27 July 1999 at  9:32:51 +0200, Alexander Maret wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I configured vinum (RAID 1) on a 3.2S System. As I want to mirror
> > as much as I need to keep the system running (in case of a drive 1
> > failure) I mirrored /etc as well. At boot time (until vinum is
> > initialized) the system only has the following files:
> >
> > /etc/defaults/rc.conf
> > /etc/rc.conf
> > /etc/rc
> > /etc/fstab
> > /etc/gettytab
> > /etc/login.conf
> > /etc/ttys
> >
> > Do I need all of these files or can I put some of them away
> > (for example /etc/ttys or /etc/gettytab)? The files
> > would of course be available as soon as vinum is initialized
> > and /etc mounted.
> 
> Interesting question.  In view of the fact that I intend to make the
> root file system bootable One Of These Days, I don't think you should
> go to too much trouble here: after all, they're only a few kilobytes
> each.  But I think you could eliminate these ones:
> 
> > /etc/gettytab
> > /etc/login.conf
> > /etc/ttys
> 
> You might find it advantageous to modify /etc/rc to mount /etc (and
> anything else you want) immediately after starting Vinum:
> 
>    if [ X$start_vinum = XYES ]; then
>    	vinum start
> 	mount /etc
>    elif [ -n "$vinum_drives" ]; then
>    	vinum read $vinum_drives
> 	mount /etc
>    fi
> 
> Greg
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