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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
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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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