Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:30:06 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Eugene Grosbein <egrosbein@rdtc.ru> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Living on gmirror: need to reincarnate /etc/rc.early Message-ID: <4D3F24BE.1070206@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4D3E79D5.7050800@rdtc.ru> References: <4D3E79D5.7050800@rdtc.ru>
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On 01/24/2011 23:20, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > Hi! > > In RELENG_8, gmirror is good enough to keep whole HDD pair withing the mirror. > Its performance, stability any pretty ease of maintainance allows > to use it widely. > > With wide deployment of gmirror in production I've faced inability > of RELENG_8 to store kernel crashdumps out-of-the-box. > gmirror manual page documents a way to setup FreeBSD so that > it would store crashdumps again but that way involves /etc/rc.early > removed from RELENG_8. I've read about intentions - it was unsafe etc. > But we still need working crashdump support. > > Easiest way is to reincarnate /etc/rc.d/early support making it better and safer > and it should support gmirror's mechanics for crashdumps out-of-the-box. I'll tell you the same thing I told Kostik way back when I removed it. This is the only thing that anyone has ever suggested a use for in /etc/rc.early, and the "solution" in the man page is a hack. :) If this is something that is necessary to do then I'd prefer to do it properly and add an /etc/rc.d/gmirror that runs in the proper (early) position, and then figure out the proper location in rc.d to handle the second half of the configuration. I'm happy to review patches. :) Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/
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