On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > Robert Watson wrote: > > This would provide full compatibility with the current model for those > > that want it (and I think it's more people than you think) at the same > > time as changing the system to provide easy support for the environment > > you're looking for. If the default settings are changing, it should be a > > "5.0 feature" not a "4.x feature". > > FWIW, I thought this was a "new feature", since diskless/dataless has > never really worked for me, without a lot of local hacking to make it > work. > > So put me down on the list for "don't change the default behaviour", > if someone has actually been able to make the thing work in 4.x with > the supplied scripts.
I have't really used the diskless environment with 4.x, but use it extensively in my test/development environments for 5.0. Stateless workstations are great when it comes to file system debugging, especially since newfs is orders of magnitude faster than fsck :-). Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project [EMAIL PROTECTED] NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
