On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:

On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 06:04:41AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Doug Barton writes
:

If you truly want to run something literally before everything else, we'd
have to create something new, which perhaps is what you were getting at
above. Before we add such a thing though, I'd like to get an idea of why
it would be needed.

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.

So maybe nuke it so people won't accidentally use it again?

That's what this discussion is about. I added some warnings that indicate that use of early.sh is deprecated, and it will be removed for 8.0.

If there is a hue and cry from the users when they start testing the beta and see those warnings I'm still open to the idea of changing it to just early (no .sh) which would accomplish the goal of not sourcing it into rc's shell which is dangerous.

Doug

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