cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d early.sh

David O'Brien obrien at FreeBSD.org
Thu Oct 11 17:41:08 PDT 2007


On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 06:04:41AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> I originally added /etc/rc.early to have a way to do things that
> needed to happen before fsck, such as arming watchdogs, tweaking
> drive parameters or get crypto key material necessary for filesystem
> access.
> 
> None of these things seems necessary today.

As I mentioned in another email - it is tweaking drive parameters that I
needed it in one case.  That it seems necessary may mean I'm missing the
currently intended way - what would that be?

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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