From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 23 11:50:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 073A237B41F; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 11:50:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g3NIcQw00630; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 14:38:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 14:38:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Terry Lambert Cc: "David O'Brien" , Danny Braniss , Freebsd Current Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1 Now Available / diskless booting In-Reply-To: <3CC5A527.180DB66D@mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message