[ replying to an old thread, sorry ]
On Nov 3, 2012, at 4:56 PM, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello, Alexander.
> You wrote 4 ноября 2012 г., 2:12:03:
>
> AY> Quick glance to nanobsd give me impression that:
> AY> 1) nanobsd is MBR based, so :
> AY> 2) nanobsd is disk-name-change sensitive.
> Here are patches to support GPT
I'd love to see those... The mailing list must have eaten the original ones.
> AY> GPT way is better - I'm using r${REV} as label, and root can be mounted no
> AY> matter how many other "firmware's" present, or how disks are ordered.
>
> AY> BTW, due to bug 173309 I had to rebuild and update my server, which took
> AY> only few minutes for reboot.
>
> AY> Well, nanobsd is great thing, I'll look into it a bit more, but it's goal
> AY> to have minified FreeBSD, while I need read-only one.
> No. Its goal is to have RO and ACID-upgradable system (with two code
> slices for this).
Yes. NanoBSD's way isn't the best, and if there's better ways for it to do its
thing, then I'm all for updating it to cope better. I have a bit of a backlog
of NanoBSD patches to get to, which is why this caught my eye, and since 9.1
will soon be a totally done deal, what better time to hack on NanoBSD and
merge...
Warner
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