Re: System unique identifier.....

[Mike Smith]

> Mike Smith wrote:
> > 
> > The loader will, at some stage in the future, grow a persistent data
> > store in which items like this can be saved.
> 
> Doesn't /boot/[defaults/]loader.conf[.local] qualify as persistent
> data storage?

There is little or no chance that the loader will gain the ability to 
write back to filesystems.  Some of them don't support it (eg. 
iso9660), others may not (TFTP, NFS), and the code required for some of 
them (especially UFS) would be problematically large.

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