From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 17 15: 8: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E82B514C8C for ; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 15:08:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA20593; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 15:07:51 -0700 Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 15:07:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System unique identifier..... In-Reply-To: <3790AD50.DC28CD62@newsguy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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? Not if the items stored there are needed prior to being able to read it. Probably not a problem because it really becomes more of a persistent boot property which is platform specific. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message