Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:45:11 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System unique identifier..... Message-ID: <199907191845.LAA00408@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 18 Jul 1999 17:55:24 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907181754480.28198-100000@semuta.feral.com>
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> > > Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > > > The loader will, at some stage in the future, grow a persistent data > > > > store in which items like this can be saved. > > > > > > Doesn't /boot/[defaults/]loader.conf[.local] qualify as persistent > > > data storage? > > > > There is little or no chance that the loader will gain the ability to > > write back to filesystems. Some of them don't support it (eg. > > iso9660), others may not (TFTP, NFS), and the code required for some of > > them (especially UFS) would be problematically large. > > But that's okay. If the persistent storage is the loader conf files, they > can be updated from single or multi-user mode. There are cases where they need to be updated _by_the_loader_; see eg. the "nextboot" manpage for functionality that we have currently lost. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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