login.conf.db, /sbin/init, separate /etc, and configs around "thin provisioning" WAS: Re: nuOS

2013-07-09 Thread Chad J. Milios
On 07/08/13 22:12, Teske, Devin wrote: We also had to put one file into the etc directory on the / "beneath" the /etc mount so that /sbin/init can read it before /etc is mounted. There were two or three ways we could do that and each has a tradeoff. I've been bitten by that. Getting access t

Re: Announcing: nuOS 0.0.9.1b1 - a whole NEW FreeBSD distro, NOT a fork

2013-07-08 Thread Chad J. Milios
On 07/08/13 00:12, Teske, Devin wrote: On Jul 7, 2013, at 2:58 PM, Chad J. Milios wrote: [snip] /etc is now a ZFS dataset of its own How did we do it? Decades of conventional wisdom says /etc must be on /. Check it out

Re: Announcing: nuOS 0.0.9.1b1 - a whole NEW FreeBSD distro, NOT a fork

2013-07-07 Thread Chad J. Milios
On 07/07/13 22:05, "C. Bergström" wrote: omg you've created Solaris If you're going to spam commercial stuff with absolutely no technically interesting details - please keep it brief at the least. Generally people will be curious about What are you actually adding to the ISO

Announcing: nuOS 0.0.9.1b1 - a whole NEW FreeBSD distro, NOT a fork

2013-07-07 Thread Chad J. Milios
PLEASE reply to this only in freebsd-chat. I have posted this announcement to five freebsd mailing lists, I hope I am not overstepping. Hello everybody. My name's Chad J. Milios. Long-time lurker, sparse rare sporadic poster. TL;DR? -- Skip below to our summary of features in an ou