Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 10:23:16 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@internetcds.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can the bootloader create a file or set a flag in the bootblocks? Message-ID: <199901151823.KAA01489@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Jan 1999 19:17:23 %2B0100." <4751.916424243@critter.freebsd.dk>
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> > That particular feature could also be done with "once-persistence" > as in: On next reboot load this file... Sure. The problem is just implementing any persistence at all. Consider that we support the following backing-stores for the kernel: - UFS on local disk - (V)FAT(32) - NFS - TFTP - iso9660 Obviously we can't write to CDROMs, but a persistence mechanism needs to work with each of these others. I've been leaning towards a very simple solution using a small, preallocated file which we just overwrite. It's not beautiful, but it's workable. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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