From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 18 17:47:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles561.castles.com [208.214.165.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1101F14DCA for ; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 17:47:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA01205; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 17:42:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199907190042.RAA01205@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System unique identifier..... In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 18 Jul 1999 01:20:32 +0900." <3790AD50.DC28CD62@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 17:42:46 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message