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Date:      Sun, 18 Jul 1999 17:55:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: System unique identifier..... 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907181754480.28198-100000@semuta.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <199907190042.RAA01205@dingo.cdrom.com>

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> > 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.




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