From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 25 03:27:19 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA00825 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 03:27:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA00820 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 03:27:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (8.9.2/8.9.2/Netplex) with ESMTP id TAA03489; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 19:24:59 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@spinner.netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <199901251124.TAA03489@spinner.netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Luigi Rizzo cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: beginnings of a diskless boot sequence being committed In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 25 Jan 1999 09:25:22 +0100." <199901250825.JAA26243@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 19:24:59 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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