Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 12:09:28 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, 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: <199901152009.MAA02138@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Jan 1999 15:08:06 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901151505320.4816-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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> > It needs to be a general solution, and see above, again, for the things > > it needs to be able to do. > > So for FFS, it could be stored in the superblock, label, or one of the other > structures that aren't actually inodes, right? For FAT, couldn't it be stored in > either the FAT or the volume name? TFTP and NFS are both non-local, but still > have writing capabilities built in. No, it needs to be in a file so that it can be simply manipulated from userland. Remember, the writable list is: - FFS - FAT - NFS - TFTP -- \\ 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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