On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 07:41:04AM +0700, Budi Rahardjo wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 10:45:14PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > Debian never was ported to a system that embeds
> > such information directly into the filesystem, so it is no wonder that it
> > doesn't support that right now, but it is clearly superior to setting it at
> > every boot (reducing start up time).
> ...
> 
> Is there a way to find recursively what things are embedded into the
> filesystem? maybe something like `find' command? or maybe `showtrans'
> should have a recursive flag? ;-)

Find, ls, rm, etc, they all need to be extended to support translators and to
not cross translated nodes when going recursive etc.  This work has hardly
been started yet (hi Alfred :)

> Or, falling to that, is there a list of what's being embedded in the
> filesystem? important ones, for example
> - /servers/socket/2
>   information about ethernet configuration (IP, netmask, gateway)

All nodes in /servers are translated.

All /dev nodes are translated.

All mount points are translated.

Thanks,
Marcus

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