On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 01:24:01AM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: > Hi! > > > What do you think in minor change to /etc/rc.d/var: >
Content-Description: patch to /etc/rc.d/var > --- var.orig Sun May 29 01:05:47 2005 > +++ var Sun May 29 01:06:12 2005 > @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ > # > > # PROVIDE: var > -# REQUIRE: mountcritlocal > +# REQUIRE: mountcritremote > > . /etc/rc.subr > > > If there are no NFS mountpoints at /etc/fstab, both variants are > equal. But if there are some and the host (which is booting) is a > diskless station, the change is critical. I was success in booting the > diskless station (from server with FreeBSD-5.4-RELEASE-p1) only after > applying this patch. > > I do have at rc.conf.local: > ----- > varmfs="YES" > > populate_var="YES" > > ----- > > But the diskless station didn't boot. It stopped booting with multiple > errors, which showed that /var was not mounted. Only the patch did the > right thing. /var should be mounted before NFS mounts are done if at all possible because it is where current mounts are recorded. There are changes in -current to remove all the /usr requirements except for mtree and to try to mount /usr if mtree is not yet available. A merge should happen before 5.5. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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