Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:04:41 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, des@FreeBSD.org, David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d early.sh Message-ID: <902.1192082681@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:13:36 MST." <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0710101744420.8687@qbhto.arg>
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In message <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0710101744420.8687@qbhto.arg>, 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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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