From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 19 09:44:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA13693 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 09:44:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles236.castles.com [208.214.165.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA13667 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 16:43:53 GMT (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA01796; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 09:41:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804191641.JAA01796@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: rotel@indigo.ie cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Discussion : Using DHCP to obtain configuration In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 19 Apr 1998 12:02:09 -0000." <199804191102.MAA00294@indigo.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 09:41:15 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Apr 19, 4:24am, allen campbell wrote: > } Subject: Re: Discussion : Using DHCP to obtain configuration. > > > > Oh.. and while I'm dreaming, how about using portalfs or similar as > > > > such: mount /etc with portalfs and have a translator present all of > > > > the data from the database in traditional format. > > > > > > This is a *terrifically* cool idea! > > Would this be read-only or read-write? > > Read-write sounds tough. Read/write would involve some rather bizarre semantics, as vetting a file's contents could really only be done at last close, so you'd be hard-pressed to return a helpful error. Still, it'd be doable. -- \\ 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. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message