From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 19 11:53:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D3F714F38 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:53:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA00408; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:45:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199907191845.LAA00408@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Mike Smith , "Daniel C. Sobral" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System unique identifier..... In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 18 Jul 1999 17:55:24 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:45:11 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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