Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 14:48:46 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: minor change to /etc/rc.d/var Message-ID: <20050529214846.GA28653@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20554958@srv.sem.ipt.ru> References: <20554958@srv.sem.ipt.ru>
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On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 01:24:01AM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> Hi!
>=20
>=20
> What do you think in minor change to /etc/rc.d/var:
>=20
Content-Description: patch to /etc/rc.d/var
> --- var.orig Sun May 29 01:05:47 2005
> +++ var Sun May 29 01:06:12 2005
> @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
> #
> =20
> # PROVIDE: var
> -# REQUIRE: mountcritlocal
> +# REQUIRE: mountcritremote
> =20
> . /etc/rc.subr
> =20
>=20
> If there are no NFS mountpoints at /etc/fstab, both variants are
> equal. But if there are some and the host (which is booting) is a
> diskless station, the change is critical. I was success in booting the
> diskless station (from server with FreeBSD-5.4-RELEASE-p1) only after
> applying this patch.
>=20
> I do have at rc.conf.local:
> -----
> varmfs=3D"YES" =
=20
> populate_var=3D"YES" =
=20
> -----
>=20
> But the diskless station didn't boot. It stopped booting with multiple
> errors, which showed that /var was not mounted. Only the patch did the
> right thing.
/var should be mounted before NFS mounts are done if at all possible
because it is where current mounts are recorded. There are changes in
-current to remove all the /usr requirements except for mtree and to
try to mount /usr if mtree is not yet available. A merge should happen
before 5.5.
-- Brooks
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