Re: cleanup of rc.conf ( -4.x )

1999-02-09 Thread Brian Feldman
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: This does not make any operational change except to get rid of the $conf_dir junk from rc.conf, which I originally put in to try to bootstrap rc.diskless. A much better way to do rc.diskless was suggested to me, which I'm going

Re: cleanup of rc.conf ( -4.x )

1999-02-09 Thread Eivind Eklund
On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 08:14:55PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: This does not make any operational change except to get rid of the $conf_dir junk from rc.conf, which I originally put in to try to bootstrap rc.diskless. A much better way to do rc.diskless was suggested to me,

Re: cleanup of rc.conf ( -4.x )

1999-02-09 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999 16:00:54 +0100, Eivind Eklund eiv...@freebsd.org said: A much better way to do rc.diskless was suggested to me, which I'm going to implement. It involves retargeting the /conf/ME softlink by mount_union'ing a small MFS Union mounts do not work, and I believe they are

Re: cleanup of rc.conf ( -4.x )

1999-02-09 Thread Matthew Dillon
: the /conf/ME softlink by mount_union'ing a small MFS : : Union mounts do not work, and I believe they are some distance from : working (unless you have better patches than I do, of course). : :Last I checked, union mounts work just fine, thank you very much. :unionfs (which should have been

Re: cleanup of rc.conf ( -4.x )

1999-02-09 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999 09:24:12 -0800 (PST), Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com said: union mounts are broken. I must have panic'd my test box 50 times trying to get them to work. Fortunately I found another way using the less sophisticated -o union type of mount That

Re: cleanup of rc.conf ( -4.x )

1999-02-09 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com writes: union mounts are broken. I must have panic'd my test box 50 times trying to get them to work. Nonono. The union filesystem ('mount -t union') is broken. Union mounts ('mount -o union') are not. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav -

Re: cleanup of rc.conf ( -4.x )

1999-02-09 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com writes: : union mounts are broken. I must have panic'd my test box 50 times : trying to get them to work. : :Nonono. The union filesystem ('mount -t union') is broken. Union :mounts ('mount -o union') are not. : :DES :-- :Dag-Erling Smorgrav -

Re: cleanup of rc.conf ( -4.x )

1999-02-09 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Fortunately I found another way using the less sophisticated -o union type of mount ( verses the more sophisticated mount_union ). Well, there are problems here too. I had /var/mail mounted with -o union from another host. My own, local, mailbox would get corrupted every once in a while

Re: cleanup of rc.conf ( -4.x )

1999-02-09 Thread perlsta
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Mikhail Teterin wrote: Fortunately I found another way using the less sophisticated -o union type of mount ( verses the more sophisticated mount_union ). Well, there are problems here too. I had /var/mail mounted with -o union from another host. My own,

Re: cleanup of rc.conf ( -4.x )

1999-02-09 Thread Matthew Dillon
: Well, there are problems here too. I had /var/mail mounted with -o union : from another host. My own, local, mailbox would get corrupted every once : in a while -- lots of \0, some other strings. 16K in size. : : This is on 3.0-RELEASE, with NFSv3. The server is Solaris. : :There were several

Re: cleanup of rc.conf ( -4.x )

1999-02-09 Thread Brian Feldman
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 1999 16:00:54 +0100, Eivind Eklund eiv...@freebsd.org said: A much better way to do rc.diskless was suggested to me, which I'm going to implement. It involves retargeting the /conf/ME softlink by mount_union'ing a small MFS *

cleanup of rc.conf ( -4.x )

1999-02-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
This does not make any operational change except to get rid of the $conf_dir junk from rc.conf, which I originally put in to try to bootstrap rc.diskless. A much better way to do rc.diskless was suggested to me, which I'm going to implement. It involves retargeting the