Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 10:40:40 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Freebsd Current <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1 Now Available / diskless booting Message-ID: <20020423104040.A2524@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <E17049r-0005rF-00@cs.huji.ac.il>; from danny@cs.huji.ac.il on Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 08:32:51PM %2B0300 References: <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> <E17049r-0005rF-00@cs.huji.ac.il>
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On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 08:32:51PM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:19:58PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
> > > diskless_root_readonly="NO" # Make it "YES" for readonly
> >
> > good.
> >
> > > diskless_etc_localmd="NO" # Make it "YES" to have the
> > > # diskless environment md-mount and replicate /etc from /conf
> >
> > Seems the "if [ -d ]" tests in rc.diskless are OK already. If we add
> > this knob, then a knob should also be added for the source of the files
> > rather than assuming /conf/etc or /conf/{client}/etc. In other words
> > either really engineer this to make diskless properly configurable, or
> > have the minimal number of knobs, etc.
>
> nice, but impractical, because of the chicken and egg problem, or in other
> words, the load/over-write of rc.conf[.local] happens a bit later ...
Please explain farther what is impractical and where the chicken-and-egg
problem is. I rc.diskless1 already has:
if [ -d /conf/default/etc ]; then
..snip..
if [ -d /conf/${i}/etc ]; then
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