Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 20:32:51 +0300 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG 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 Message-ID: <E17049r-0005rF-00@cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: Message from "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> of "Tue, 23 Apr 2002 09:46:28 PDT." <20020423094628.A85404@dragon.nuxi.com>
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> 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 ...
danny
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