From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 22 2:13:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freja.webgiro.com (freja.webgiro.com [212.209.29.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21890155F1; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 02:13:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1CDD81912; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 11:13:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BCD149FC; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 11:13:00 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 11:13:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Mike Smith Cc: "Brian F. Feldman" , "Daniel C. Sobral" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: System unique identifier..... In-Reply-To: <199907220622.XAA00979@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > That's not quite true. It wouldn't be too hard to modify existant files, > > > but writing new ones/truncating would take a lot of work. It's still not > > > a great idea to try to use a file on the FS for storage of persistent > > > data. Wouldn't it be possible to have the kernel itself read in persistent > > > data (in some form such as getenv?) to be written to disk? That way, the > > > boot loader could pass it easily, and not have to worry about storage. > > > > This may sound like a heresy to you, but... Why don't use the Forth blocks > > for that? > > For what? Saving parametric data? That was always the plan, but the > last thing I think anyone wants to do is rewrite the ffs code in Forth. Ugh.. No, of course not. The former, i.e. saving parameters. I'm still sane, you know... :-) Andrzej Bialecki // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message