Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 08:34:12 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@seagull.rtd.com> To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: About readonly root partition Message-ID: <199501131534.IAA26166@seagull.rtd.com> In-Reply-To: <199501131351.OAA00429@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Jan 13, 95 02:51:51 pm
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> So, How about letting "init" look for "/rc" instead/before > looking for /etc/rc ? This would help in having the following: > > 1) a main "rc" is called, which does the initial checks; > 2) mounts the proper filesystem onto /etc; > 3) passes control to /etc/rc > > With the current setting, the above might still work except that, once > the new /etc is mounted, the original /etc/rc is no more readable. Why not just hack /etc/rc to source /writeablefs/foorc which contains the "variable" (machine specific) stuff? Or, have I missed something?
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