From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 5 18:59:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA03089 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 18:59:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (lapdog.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA03064 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 18:58:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA02350; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 13:19:31 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199802060249.NAA02350@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Richard Wackerbarth cc: Mike Smith , Mikael Karpberg , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot floppy banner In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 05 Feb 1998 20:36:09 CST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 18:49:31 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" > >> With all these boot.XXXX files, and stuff, isn't it time for doing > >> /boot/XXXX instead? Seems to me the root should have as few files as > >> possible. > > > >Last time I proposed that, Bruce was rather unhappy about it. IMHO > >it's the right approach though. > > I imagine that his objection is that he will either need to understand > each fs directory structure or go through even more special code to force > things into fixed locations. The current bootstrap code (AFAIR) understands directories just fine. The restriction for UFS bootstrap filesystems would remain. > Personally, I would like to see "/" purged of everything possible. > However, I would like to add a "/.rc" file to be used as a stub in > place of "/etc/rc". This would permit me to have a way to mount > "/etc" as a read-only file system and still maintain a writeable root > in a mfs. Why should you want /etc/rc writable? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\