Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 11:23:41 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jake <jake@checker.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why doesn't Vinum start automatically? Message-ID: <19990131112340.M8473@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199901310003.QAA00500@h24-64-221-247.gv.wave.shaw.ca>; from Jake on Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 04:03:48PM -0800 References: <19990131093951.G8473@freebie.lemis.com> <199901310003.QAA00500@h24-64-221-247.gv.wave.shaw.ca>
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On Saturday, 30 January 1999 at 16:03:48 -0800, Jake wrote: >> In -CURRENT it is now: >> >> if [ "X$skip_diskconf" != "XYES" -a -n "$vinum_slices" ]; then >> vinum read $vinum_slices >> fi > > Has this been fixed in -stable? No. > There was the problem of $vinum_slices not being initialized > because it was being used before rc.conf had been sourced. > >>> Any ideas why this isn't working? Is it working in -current but not -stable? > > This led me to believe that he was running -stable and simply > posted to the wrong group. Yes, I think you must be right. > The 'suck in rc.conf' part was moved to the top of rc after the split, > so i think this is the problem. > > IMHO this should be back-ported to stable; seems safe enough to > source rc.conf before mounting non-root filesystems. My system > isn't mission critical or anything, but I haven't run into any > gotchas. I can't see any way that this could compromise the stability of -STABLE, so I agree. Peter committed the change to -CURRENT, so I'll leave it to him. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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