Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 19:24:59 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: beginnings of a diskless boot sequence being committed Message-ID: <199901251124.TAA03489@spinner.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 25 Jan 1999 09:25:22 %2B0100." <199901250825.JAA26243@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Luigi Rizzo wrote: [..] > I haven't seen how you suggest to build&populate the MFS filesystems -- > right now i use a rather crude method of putting all the stuff in a tgz > archive on the server and expanding it at runtime on the client. I > haven't solved the problem with passwords (i.e. i just copy the files > from the server. -- this is clearly a security hole, perhaps YP-based > solutions would be much better). Didn't Matt have patches for initializing a MFS from a mmap'ed file rather than from swap at some point? Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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