From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 20 17:55:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA07570 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 17:55:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA07559 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 17:55:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA22614; Wed, 20 May 1998 17:50:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Brian Feldman cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What do you think about this addition to rc{.conf}(5)? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 20 May 1998 18:23:37 EDT." Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 17:50:46 -0700 Message-ID: <22610.895711846@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =-= > my->name = "Brian Feldman"; > my->email[0] = "brianfeldman@hotmail.com"; > my->email[1] = "green@feldman.dyn.ml.org"; > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =-= > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message