Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 09:51:22 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: Nick Hibma <nick@van-laarhoven.org> Cc: FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: support for "first boot" rc.d scripts Message-ID: <525C210A.2000306@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <41F1219E-4DCC-4B04-A1DC-40038809556B@van-laarhoven.org> References: <525B258F.3030403@freebsd.org> <41F1219E-4DCC-4B04-A1DC-40038809556B@van-laarhoven.org>
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Hi Nick, On 10/14/13 00:59, Nick Hibma wrote: > Sounds useful: We have nanobsd images that configure a hard disk if present, but obviously only need to be run once. > > However: NanoBSD stores uses a memory disk for /etc and stores it's permanent scripts in /conf/* (/etc/rc.initdiskless) and/or /cfg (NanoBSD) so I doubt whether the 'embedded systems' argument is of much use, as deleting the script or flagging 'firstboot' is non-permanent. Yes, it's hard to store state on diskless systems... but I figured that anyone building a diskless system would know to not create a "run firstboot scripts" marker. And not all embedded systems are diskless... -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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