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Date:      Sun, 11 Oct 2020 13:30:23 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
To:        Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r366626 - head/sbin/reboot
Message-ID:  <20201011133023.GA67893@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <35355AD6-42C6-48A2-8FCF-A371A82D683A@me.com>
References:  <202010111040.09BAeCfg073782@repo.freebsd.org> <8601CC07-3A43-461A-915C-3CB68BADF41A@me.com> <20201011130151.GA32755@FreeBSD.org> <35355AD6-42C6-48A2-8FCF-A371A82D683A@me.com>

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On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 04:08:09PM +0300, Toomas Soome wrote:
> > On 11. Oct 2020, at 16:01, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> >> ...
> >> Also nextboot.conf not generic configuration file (such as loader.conf
> >> or loader.conf.local), but the implementation specific file, part of
> >> special feature.
> >> 
> >> That is, one should not assume the presence of nextboot.conf file, make
> >> assumptions about its content, or perform manual edits on it.
> > 
> > Do we want it to be the second-class citizen like this?  Would it make
> > better sense by documenting it more completely instead?
> 
> It is not really about being second-class citizen, it really is about if
> and how we can implement the feature. With UFS there is a limited write
> (write to existing, allocated disk blocks), with ZFS there is no write to
> file system at all.

I see; that would explain why loader(8) replaces the "YES" -> "NO"<space>,
but I guess I'd have to read the discussion on -rc@ which lead to r177062,
because I don't see the reason for it to be removed (twice) if it's being
disabled by the loader(8) earlier anyway.

./danfe



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