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Date:      Sun, 18 Jul 1999 17:42:46 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: System unique identifier..... 
Message-ID:  <199907190042.RAA01205@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 18 Jul 1999 01:20:32 %2B0900." <3790AD50.DC28CD62@newsguy.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.

-- 
\\  The mind's the standard       \\  Mike Smith
\\  of the man.                   \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\    -- Joseph Merrick           \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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