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Date:      Tue, 23 Apr 2002 14:38:26 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>, Freebsd Current <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1 Now Available / diskless booting
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020423143735.64976m-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <3CC5A527.180DB66D@mindspring.com>

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On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Robert Watson wrote:
> > This would provide full compatibility with the current model for those
> > that want it (and I think it's more people than you think) at the same
> > time as changing the system to provide easy support for the environment
> > you're looking for.  If the default settings are changing, it should be a
> > "5.0 feature" not a "4.x feature".
> 
> FWIW, I thought this was a "new feature", since diskless/dataless has
> never really worked for me, without a lot of local hacking to make it
> work. 
>
> So put me down on the list for "don't change the default behaviour",
> if someone has actually been able to make the thing work in 4.x with
> the supplied scripts.

I have't really used the diskless environment with 4.x, but use it
extensively in my test/development environments for 5.0.  Stateless
workstations are great when it comes to file system debugging, especially
since newfs is orders of magnitude faster than fsck :-).

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
robert@fledge.watson.org      NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services



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