I've been wondering about this problem, and wondered what you all
thought about it. The problem is this: a volume is typically
mounted as one of the first parts of the system start process (in
the rc scripts), and loading packages before this happens can be
difficult.
For example, you have packages in /hda/lrp/net/1/*.lrp and in
/hda/lrp/net/2/*.lrp and you want them to load - but /hda isn't
mounted until after all the packages are loaded - and /etc/fstab
doesn't even exist until etc.lrp is loaded.
What's more, there is two specifications here: a physical device
and/or mount point (/hda, /hda5, whatever) and a path. How do you
set this up?
Would it be enough to load packages from a path, and if the path is
not found, mount a drive? Or should the "mount all drives" be done
even earlier? Or what?
My thinking is muddled on this - I need some clarity.
Here is another example - more true to life:
A bootable CDROM with a LEAF project on it boots and then
wants to load packages from /cdrom/lrp/pkgs/net1/ and
/cdrom/lrp/pkgs/net2/ .... this is what got me thinking about this,
but hard drives have the same potential problem.
More than anything, it's the path that throws things off - the current
way of doing things is to specify the physical device... What do
you all think?
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David Douthitt
UNIX Systems Administrator
HP-UX, Linux, Unixware
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