Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 23:11:18 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Add timecounter option to rc.conf Message-ID: <30340.1049663478@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 06 Apr 2003 22:02:54 %2B0200." <xzpu1dbs8b5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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In message <xzpu1dbs8b5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: >"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes: >> In message <xzp1y0fmpb5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: >> > The attached patch adds a timecounter option to rc.conf and an rc.d >> > script to handle it. >> What's wrong with using /etc/sysctl.conf for this ? > >Partly because I believe that the choice of timecounter hardware is >sufficiently important to the performance and correct operation of the >system to warrant its own rc.conf knob, and partly because I hate the >"configuration diaspora" of which sysctl.conf is a prime example. I on the other hand think that by now /etc/rc.conf has so many knobs and handles that it is practically impossible to figure out how to do anything without resorting to "less /etc/rc.*" to figure it out :-( >(another such example is ntp.conf - the needs of most ntpd users can >be met with an ntp.conf generated automatically from information which >is already present in rc.conf) The new NTP4 automatic configuration stuff is promising in this respect, with a little luck people will need to configure nothing at all. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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