From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 7 08:43:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85A8316A4CE; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 08:43:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp1.jazztel.es (smtp1.jazztel.es [62.14.3.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4934243D48; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 08:43:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es) Received: from antivirus by smtp1.jazztel.es with antivirus id 1CFTry-0003Ds-00 Thu, 07 Oct 2004 10:43:26 +0200 Received: from [212.106.254.137] (helo=rguez.homeunix.net) by smtp1.jazztel.es with esmtp id 1CFTrx-0003DP-00 Thu, 07 Oct 2004 10:43:25 +0200 Received: from redesjm.local (orion.redesjm.local [192.168.254.16]) by rguez.homeunix.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i978h9ML001028; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 10:43:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by redesjm.local (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i978h9RU001354; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 10:43:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es) X-Authentication-Warning: orion.redesjm.local: freebsd set sender to josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es using -f From: Jose M Rodriguez To: Tim Kientzle Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 10:43:08 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <20041003124353.29822.qmail@web54005.mail.yahoo.com> <200410051738.32415.freebsd@redesjm.local> <4164BA94.7020009@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4164BA94.7020009@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410071043.09015.josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es> X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir Milter 1.1-beta; AVE 6.27.0.12; VDF 6.27.0.81 (host: antares.redesjm.local) X-Virus-Scanned: by antivirus cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3: /stand/ versus /rescue/ ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 08:43:11 -0000 On Thursday 07 October 2004 05:40, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Jose M Rodriguez wrote: > > I think /etc/rc.d/initdiskless may use /rescue/zcat and /rescue/tar > > instead of /stand/gzip an /stand/cpio. > > /etc/rc.d/initdiskless should not be using either > /stand or /rescue. > Well, it try to use compressed tarballs and it isn't any compress/gzip/bzip2 lib out of /usr, wich is not mounted. Also, a /var tarball seems the easy option for the boot chicken/egg problem about this dir (have nfs/mount status under /var). > In particular, /bin/pax is a much better choice > than either /stand/cpio or /rescue/tar. gzip > should be easy to avoid. > > Tim If you think really go with this, please, speak loud and clear before. Compressed tarball are the most standard and secure way for net boot and are in real use. My 2x250 GB HD doesn't have any problem with the 2 MB stand. -- josemi