> On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > Obviously we can't write to CDROMs, but a persistence mechanism needs > > to work with each of these others. I've been leaning towards a very > > simple solution using a small, preallocated file which we just > > overwrite. It's not beautiful, but it's workable. > > It can't go into free space in a boot block? We still have room left over... > It could only be a few bytes, enumerating numbered kernels in > /boot/kernels.rc, > or something like that
It needs to be a general solution, and see above, again, for the things it needs to be able to do. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msm...@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
