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Date:      Fri, 12 May 1995 13:28:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Cc:        wollman@freefall.cdrom.com, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-sbin@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/dumpon Makefile dumpon.8 dumpon.c
Message-ID:  <199505122028.NAA01958@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199505121940.MAA05182@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at May 12, 95 12:40:41 pm

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> 
> > > I vote for this change to stay.  It is a lot cleaner that what we have.
> > 
> > You don't have a vote in this matter, this is the decision of the release
> > engineer, who has appointed that power to me.  Just as you had veto power
> > when you where release engineer.
> 
> It's your call.
> 
> Let me >inform< you that we can not go ahead with the planned "no extra 
> reboots needed" feature of sysinstall, unless I get your permission to 
> fix the swap-initialization.
> 
> The problem is if you have no swapdevices, (as in "no freebsd-slice")
> when you boot the floppy, then you cannot do a swapon.  This is because
> the swapdevices are tallied and sized before /sbin/init (which is stupid).
> 
> This bit of initialization should be done as part of the first swapon(2)
> call done.
> 
> Let Jordan decide this one, he's the one doing sysinstall, and he will have
> to cope with that reboot if we don't change it.
> 

Agreed, the final decision is Jordan's I am just running a front for him
since he does not have the time to watch the whole of the source tree.



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Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                   Custom computers for FreeBSD



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