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On Mon, April 10, 2006 14:08, Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:
> Heiko Zuerker wrote on 10.04.2006 15:46 MET:
>
>> Hey,
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, April 8, 2006 17:48, Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm proposing a change to etc/init.d/ startscripts, namely adding a
>>>> filesystem init routine to the start section which unpacks parts
>>>> of the /var/ filesystem if
>>>> the underlying filesystem which some daemon needs is currently
>>>> empty. This situation will happen when eg. LV 'log' gets mounted at
>>>> /var/log.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Attached is an example patch to etc/init.d/sysconfig.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> As you can see current existing files are not overwritten. In case
>>>> some files already exist but the check determines to do the
>>>> umpacking some error messages are genereated by tar because of the
>>>> already existing files.
>>>>
>>>> Only filtering stderr (2> /dev/null) does not seem logical to me as
>>>> I
>>>> wanted to show if something gets done, so I accepted the possible
>>>> case of distracting error messages. Those only say that a specific
>>>> file already existed and wasn't overwritten.
>>>>
>>>> I would add similar patches to those init script which I stumble
>>>> upon and am able to test.
>>
>>
>> It's probably the time of the day, but I ask anyway... ;-)
>>
>>
>> I can't see what this buys us, compared to the way we do thinks right
>> now.
>
> After you've booted a fresh DL create a LV named "var" in the VG
> "devil-linux",
> format it and then reboot the system. What do you see with "ls -al /var"
> after the reboot? No files if I'm correct, am I not?
Now that I'm finally awake, I can understand it. ;-)
Then I agree with the change.
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Regards
Heiko Zuerker
http://www.devil-linux.org
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