On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Andrew Hesford wrote:
> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:42:45 -0500
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 11:57:18AM -0700, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
>
> I take objection to the moving of pccard before mounting /usr. It works
> just fine for those who place /var on the same partition as /, but for
> guys like me, it means you are mounting /var at a different time than
> other filesystems. I think that, for cohesiveness and sanity, all
> filesystems should be mounted at the same time, with the mount script
> simply calling `mount -a`. Otherwise, we have to wory about mount-var.sh
> and mount-rest.sh.
Well, the reason I thought of this was because /var is kind of special,
and NetBSD does break out the mounts to a critlocal (/var) a critremote
(/usr), which is a misnomer, and finally a mountall (mount -a). I was just
trying to keep it as similar to NetBSD as possible. Anyway, I have no
problems with moving pccard back to after /usr (and by implication /var)
have been mounted. It was just a thought. Although, it makes it impossible
to use a pccard ethernet to get your /usr (which I can think of a couple
ways this would happen (desktop pc with a only a wireless interface to
connect it to the rest of the network)). But this should all be moot as
NEWCARD is going to stomp all over OLDCARD by the time this makes it's way
to a -RELEASE.
Sorry, I get kinda rambly on this, but I'm just trying to consider as many
aspects of the boot system as possible.
-gordon
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