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Date:      Tue, 6 Apr 2004 11:37:48 -0700
From:      Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        brooks@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d ramdisk ramdisk-own
Message-ID:  <200404061137.48974.wes@softweyr.com>
In-Reply-To: <200404061826.i36IQh5P025090@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200404061826.i36IQh5P025090@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Tuesday 06 April 2004 11:26 am, Wes Peters wrote:
> wes         2004/04/06 11:26:43 PDT
>
>   FreeBSD src repository
>
>   Modified files:
>     etc/rc.d             ramdisk
>   Added files:
>     etc/rc.d             ramdisk-own
>   Log:
>   Split ramdisk processing in two so it can actually work.  Ownerships
>   and permissions specified per rc.conf(5) now apply both to the md
>   device and to the mountpoint directory, after the mount has completed.
>   This has to be done in two steps, because chown is not available
>   until after /usr has been mounted, but the mdconfig and newfs steps
>   have to complete before fstab processing.

Now that Brooks has split out dynamic creation of /var and /tmp for diskless 
systems, I wonder if we could profitably coalesce these?

Maybe not; the ramdisk silliness is mostly just to help people who want to 
use md's for small pools of high-speed cache, and is quite manual and 
simple about configuration, where Brooks' var and tmp processing is quite 
automatic.  Still, it bears some thinking.

-- 
         "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                              wes@softweyr.com




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