On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 01:20:53PM +0600, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > Hi! > > In RELENG_8, gmirror is good enough to keep whole HDD pair withing the mirror. > Its performance, stability any pretty ease of maintainance allows > to use it widely. > > With wide deployment of gmirror in production I've faced inability > of RELENG_8 to store kernel crashdumps out-of-the-box. > gmirror manual page documents a way to setup FreeBSD so that > it would store crashdumps again but that way involves /etc/rc.early > removed from RELENG_8. I've read about intentions - it was unsafe etc. > But we still need working crashdump support. > > Easiest way is to reincarnate /etc/rc.d/early support making it better and > safer > and it should support gmirror's mechanics for crashdumps out-of-the-box. > > Comments? Yes, I have this change for eons. Actually, from the moment rc.early was booted out.
diff --git a/etc/rc.d/Makefile b/etc/rc.d/Makefile
index 6f80b87..7981ce0 100755
--- a/etc/rc.d/Makefile
+++ b/etc/rc.d/Makefile
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ FILES= DAEMON FILESYSTEMS LOGIN NETWORKING SERVERS \
ccd cleanvar cleartmp cron \
ddb defaultroute devd devfs dhclient \
dmesg dumpon \
- encswap \
+ early encswap \
faith fsck ftp-proxy ftpd \
gbde geli geli2 gptboot gssd \
hastd hcsecd \
diff --git a/etc/rc.d/early b/etc/rc.d/early
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..8a863d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/etc/rc.d/early
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# $FreeBSD$
+#
+
+# PROVIDE: early
+# REQUIRE: disks localswap
+# BEFORE: fsck
+
+#
+# Support for legacy /etc/rc.early script
+#
+. /etc/rc.subr
+
+name="early"
+start_cmd="early_start"
+stop_cmd=":"
+
+early_start()
+{
+ if [ -r /etc/rc.early ]; then
+ echo -n 'Executing rc.early script:'
+ . /etc/rc.early
+ echo '.'
+ fi
+}
+
+load_rc_config $name
+run_rc_command "$1"
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