Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:13:11 +0100 From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> To: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Improved INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE Message-ID: <1174914791.44767.17.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20070326063907.G59155@thebighonker.lerctr.org> References: <20070324113739.GA41119@ravenloft.kiev.ua> <20070324135333.GA86105@FreeBSD.czest.pl> <20070324153108.P4956@fledge.watson.org> <20070324220041.GI847@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20070324233307.GA93841@FreeBSD.czest.pl> <20070325153013.E77473@ury.york.ac.uk> <4607523E.50201@freebsd.org> <20070326111702.GD838@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20070326063907.G59155@thebighonker.lerctr.org>
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On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 06:42 -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > > On 2007-Mar-25 23:55:26 -0500, Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> On 03/25/07 09:34, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > >>> strings `sysctl -n kern.bootfile` | grep ^___ | sed -e 's/^___//' > >>> > >>> should still work if it was in a .comment section > >> > >> Unless you no longer have the running kernel, or it has changed since > >> the boot up of the system. A sysctl knob to dump it is *very* useful. > > > > Note that kern.bootfile will get updated during installkernel. I also > > can't think of a situation where I would have lost all copies of my > > running kernel as well as the config file that was used to build it. > > This could potentially happen if you ran two or more installkernels > > without rebooting but I can't think of any reason why I would do that: > > If a kernel builds, I am likely to try booting it before going onto > > something else. If a kernel doesn't build, it won't install. > > > > Overall, having the config file loaded strikes me as a waste of RAM. > > I had a weird situation where the /usr/src directory got trashed, but the > system was still up. I did *NOT* have a good copy of the config so had > to recreate it. ... but you had the running kernel in /boot/kernel? In which case, a .comment section would be fine. Gavin
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