Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 17:50:46 -0700
From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To: Brian Feldman <green@feldman.dyn.ml.org>
Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: What do you think about this addition to rc{.conf}(5)?
Message-ID: <22610.895711846@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 May 1998 18:23:37 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980520182228.14079A-100000@localhost>
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Uh... Why not just add a single line to /etc/fstab which does the
same thing? To say that this solution is unbelievably baroque and
unnecessary would be charitable. :-)
- Jordan
> The purpouse of these two additions is to add the ability to configure the
> system automatically to use MFS as the /tmp file system. This makes sense
> after reading the white paper on MFS, and its use as a /tmp filesystem,
> and looking at rc(5) which already had a tmp clearing function. It seemed
> obvious to add the following:
>
> to rc:
> if [ "X${mfs_tmp_enable}" = X"YES" ]; then
> if [ X${mfs_tmp_type} != X ]; then
> mount_mfs -T ${mfs_tmp_type} mfs /tmp
> else
> echo "disktab(5)-compliant mfs type not given for /tmp"
> fi
> fi
>
> to rc.conf:
> mfs_tmp_enable="NO" # mount an mfs for /tmp
> mfs_tmp_type="" # disktab(5) type for /tmp
>
> Comments? Should we merge this, or is it useful to only myself?
>
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