On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 04:08:09PM +0300, Toomas Soome wrote: > > On 11. Oct 2020, at 16:01, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > >> ... > >> Also nextboot.conf not generic configuration file (such as loader.conf > >> or loader.conf.local), but the implementation specific file, part of > >> special feature. > >> > >> That is, one should not assume the presence of nextboot.conf file, make > >> assumptions about its content, or perform manual edits on it. > > > > Do we want it to be the second-class citizen like this? Would it make > > better sense by documenting it more completely instead? > > It is not really about being second-class citizen, it really is about if > and how we can implement the feature. With UFS there is a limited write > (write to existing, allocated disk blocks), with ZFS there is no write to > file system at all.
I see; that would explain why loader(8) replaces the "YES" -> "NO"<space>, but I guess I'd have to read the discussion on -rc@ which lead to r177062, because I don't see the reason for it to be removed (twice) if it's being disabled by the loader(8) earlier anyway. ./danfe _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
