From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 10 15: 9:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2723137B404 for ; Fri, 10 May 2002 15:09:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0471.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.216] helo=mindspring.com) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 176IaC-00012B-00; Fri, 10 May 2002 15:09:49 -0700 Message-ID: <3CDC450D.20F05776@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 15:09:17 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gordon Tetlow Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nextboot loader diff References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gordon Tetlow wrote: > Is there anything that is wrong with the conceptual implementation of the > nextboot loader code that I've submitted? It definitely needs a code > cleanup on the forth side (which I'm not qualified to do), but if there > are no other objections, I'd really like to see this code committed. There should be a list, so that in a brown-out or whatever, you don't end up toggling back to the previous version accidently. You should only ever rewrite the contents of a single file, and it shouldn't be an important file. The existance/non-existance of the single file should be enough to trigger/suppress the nextboot behaviour. Don't assume that the nextboot file will be on the same disk and/or partition as the boot and other config file code. -- Together, these things will allow the new code to solve the same problem that the old code solved on the InterJet. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message