Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:42:45 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@usrlib.org> To: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@bluemtn.net> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net>, Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@redirect.to>, Jon Parise <jon@csh.rit.edu>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net>, bsddiy@163.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, eivind@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: import NetBSD rc system Message-ID: <20010614144245.A7853@core.usrlib.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106141146040.94127-100000@sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com>; from gordont@bluemtn.net on Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 11:57:18AM -0700 References: <200106141814.f5EIEOV15979@harmony.village.org> <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106141146040.94127-100000@sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com>
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On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 11:57:18AM -0700, Gordon Tetlow wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > > > With all due respect to Eivind, he's reinventing the wheel. I'd like > > to see NetBSD's brought in with an absolute minimum of change. > > Along those lines, I'm typing on my laptop that is using the scripts that > I have ported over... I've only gotten it up to network initialization. > > >From diving through it all, there will be a fair amount of departure from > the NetBSD stuff at least up through network init. This is just due to the > inherent differences in the OSs. Where there was departure, I took the > current FreeBSD boot scripts and turned them into modules so as to make it > very similar to the current system. > > I've also made some (slight) changes to the boot order. Mostly just > formalizing the lock step nature of things. I did make one change that I > think will be helpful, I moved pccard initialization to before the > mounting of /usr (but after mounting /var). This way people can use pccard > for mounting filesystems from /etc/fstab which I don't think you can do > now. Anyone have any objections to this move? it would require moving > pccardd and pccardc to /sbin, but that should be it. Other than that, I > made the (rash) assumption that /var is local storage, which simplifies > things greatly. That makes it diskless un-friendly, but we've always been > unfriendly to diskless anyway.... > > I'll see about porting the rest of the scripts to get it as close to a > fully working system as possible, I think it should go rather quickly. I > hope to have patches up tomorrow for people to play with. > > -gordon Wow, this is the thread that won't die. I take objection to the moving of pccard before mounting /usr. It works just fine for those who place /var on the same partition as /, but for guys like me, it means you are mounting /var at a different time than other filesystems. I think that, for cohesiveness and sanity, all filesystems should be mounted at the same time, with the mount script simply calling `mount -a`. Otherwise, we have to wory about mount-var.sh and mount-rest.sh. If we want to mount pccard stuff from fstab, we should do something like the smbfs script does. Then we can have a mount-local.sh and mount-pccard.sh script, which is a bit more sane. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@usrlib.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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