On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
> >
> > That particular feature could also be done with "once-persistence"
> > as in: On next reboot load this file...
>
> Sure. The problem is just implementing any persistence at all.
> Consider that we support the following backing-stores for the kernel:
>
> - UFS on local disk
> - (V)FAT(32)
> - NFS
> - TFTP
> - iso9660
>
> Obviously we can't write to CDROMs, but a persistence mechanism needs
> to work with each of these others. I've been leaning towards a very
> simple solution using a small, preallocated file which we just
> overwrite. It's not beautiful, but it's workable.
It can't go into free space in a boot block? We still have room left over...
It could only be a few bytes, enumerating numbered kernels in /boot/kernels.rc,
or something like that
>
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