FILESYSTEMS (the default early_late_divider):
1. Move sysctl to run first
2. Move as many BEFOREs to REQUIREs as possible.
3. Minor effect, move hostid_save from right before mdconfig to right
after.
A lot of the early scripts make use of sysctl one way or another so
running this first makes a lot of sense given that system-critical
values are often placed in sysctl.conf.
My original purpose for working on this was that while doing some
debugging on other stuff I noticed that the order of execution was
different in the first pass through the early scripts and the second.
In practice that doesn't matter because the scripts are not executed the
second time. However this _can_ result in problems if the difference in
the rcorder moves a script from the late section to the early section in
the second pass (which would mean the script would not get executed).
So, I wanted to make the order of execution of the scripts in the early
section more deterministic.
In the course of debugging the ordering problems I noticed that moving
the BEFOREs to REQUIREs prevented the changes in order from the first
pass to the second pass without having to make any substantial changes.
(Of course it's no secret that I think BEFORE should be avoided as much
as possible, but this is a good example of why.)
Reviewed by: silence on freebsd-rc@
MFC after: 8.1-RELEASE
otherwise the /dev/mdX.uzip won't be created immediately, which is
needed because we issue a mount right afterwards.
Approved by: re@ (bmah@)
MFC after: 2 days
scripts. These scripts handle vnode backed md(4) devices.
Old ramdisk{,-own} scripts will stay a bit in CVS to allow some time for
migration since variable names have changed (ramdisk_* -> mdconfig_*).
Two new variables have been introduced to be able to populate the md(4)
device once it has been mounted (mdconfig_*_files and mdconfig_*_cmd).
Use should be as easy as:
mdconfig_md0="-t malloc -s 10m"
mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img"
See rc.conf(5) for more information and description of the additional
variables.
Approved by: cperciva
