> > > > 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.
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