Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 14:38:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>, Freebsd Current <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1 Now Available / diskless booting Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020423143735.64976m-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <3CC5A527.180DB66D@mindspring.com>
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On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > Robert Watson wrote: > > This would provide full compatibility with the current model for those > > that want it (and I think it's more people than you think) at the same > > time as changing the system to provide easy support for the environment > > you're looking for. If the default settings are changing, it should be a > > "5.0 feature" not a "4.x feature". > > FWIW, I thought this was a "new feature", since diskless/dataless has > never really worked for me, without a lot of local hacking to make it > work. > > So put me down on the list for "don't change the default behaviour", > if someone has actually been able to make the thing work in 4.x with > the supplied scripts. I have't really used the diskless environment with 4.x, but use it extensively in my test/development environments for 5.0. Stateless workstations are great when it comes to file system debugging, especially since newfs is orders of magnitude faster than fsck :-). Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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