> > > > 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.
> >
> > But that's okay. If the persistent storage is the loader conf files, they
> > can be updated from single or multi-user mode.
>
> There are cases where they need to be updated _by_the_loader_; see eg.
> the "nextboot" manpage for functionality that we have currently lost.
So much the better.
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