Re: RC NG, ntp and routed

[Brad Knowles]

At 10:33 PM -0800 2002/12/10, Gordon Tetlow wrote:

 DISKS
 FILESYSTEMS
 NETWORKING
 DAEMON
 LOGIN

 DISKS would be things that are needed to get the disks in order to start
 getting filesystems mounted (vinum, ccd, raidframe and friends). It may
 be a superflous step.
 FILESYSTEMS and NETWORKING are a problem because they kind of intertwine.
 It's not a clear cut case of mount all the filesystems then start the
 networking interfaces. In reality, FILESYSTEMS and NETWORKING are very
 much muddled (and cause me no end of grief as a result).
 DAEMON is for things like ssh and the like that need to run (thinking
 about nfsd, sshd, and just about any *d)
 LOGIN is just that. Things that are started at the end of system
 initialization.

I believe that DISKS should be split into DISKS_LOCAL and DISKS_NETWORK. This allows us to get NETWORKING going after DISKS_LOCAL and before DISKS_NETWORK. We may also want to split NETWORKING into INTERFACES and ROUTING (and higher level networking), in case there is anything that we might need to slide in-between. We might even need to split NETWORKING into three parts.

 I'd like to think about really sitting down and overhauling the rc.d
 system after 5.0 is branched. I think that it's reasonable to say we
 should not try to be compatible with NetBSD except for keeping a common
 rc.subr and major initialization catagories (basically anything that is
 in all caps). Does anyone have a problem with dyking out the NetBSD
 specific portions after 5.0?

Nope. It's nice to be as close as we can feasibly get, but if it doesn't work then it doesn't work, and we shouldn't unnecessarily handicap ourselves just to be compatible.

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