Re: rc.d start order

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

Hmmm, you're right (as usual) regarding the sequence-control keywords,
as verified by rcorder.  There must've been something else going on.

I'll have to check again after I resolve a few other issues.



On Tue, 5 Mar 2024, Robert Elz wrote:

>    Date:        Mon, 4 Mar 2024 17:31:22 -0800 (PST)
>    From:        Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>
>    Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.4.64.2403041729300.1710%speedy.whooppee.com@localhost>
>
>  | Is there a reason that checking disks (vi fsck) happens before the ccd
>  | and.or cgd drivers can create their devices?  It's hard to check on ccd0
>  | before it exists!
>
> Really?
>
> On my system both ccd and cdg are "# BEFORE: DISKS" whereas fsck is
> "# REQUIRE: localswap" and swap1 (which is # PROVIDE localswap) is
> "# REQUIRE: DISKS".    That is, ccd and cgd both come before DISKS
> and fsck (other than fsck_root which is almost the first thing that
> happens) comes after DISKS which puts both ccd and cgd ahead of fsck.
>
> If you're attempting root on ccd or cgd then the fsck_root is going
> to have problems, but neither of those is something that's supported.
>
> To make that work you're going to need tricks (inside those systems
> perhaps) like raidframe has - and the system would effectively be
> starting with one root and then changing to another during the boot
> process.   For cgd that's inevitable, as cgd requires the params
> file for the device, and that has to come from somewhere, before the
> cgd can be configured, so there has to be a filesystem from which to
> read it, and there cannot be any filesystems without root.   I suspect
> ccd is the same - but I just use raidframe (raid0) instead of that.
>
> raidframe has autoconfigure so it has the ability to set itself up
> before root, so a root on raidframe can be made to work.
>
> kre
>
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