From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 23 10:32:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cs.huji.ac.il (cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9292A37B400; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 10:32:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pampa.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.80.32] ident=danny) by cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #2) id 17049r-0005rF-00; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 20:32:51 +0300 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Robert Watson , Terry Lambert , Freebsd Current Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1 Now Available / diskless booting In-Reply-To: Message from "David O'Brien" of "Tue, 23 Apr 2002 09:46:28 PDT." <20020423094628.A85404@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 20:32:51 +0300 From: Danny Braniss Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:19:58PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote: > > diskless_root_readonly="NO" # Make it "YES" for readonly > > good. > > > diskless_etc_localmd="NO" # Make it "YES" to have the > > # diskless environment md-mount and replicate /etc from /conf > > Seems the "if [ -d ]" tests in rc.diskless are OK already. If we add > this knob, then a knob should also be added for the source of the files > rather than assuming /conf/etc or /conf/{client}/etc. In other words > either really engineer this to make diskless properly configurable, or > have the minimal number of knobs, etc. nice, but impractical, because of the chicken and egg problem, or in other words, the load/over-write of rc.conf[.local] happens a bit later ... danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message