(For the benefit of anyone else)
Jan and I just had a short phone conversation where we realized that we
didn't actually disagree on anything other than where to draw the line
between "design" and "implementation".
The current boot archive design/implementation has fragile spots with
respect to state & config files (such as path_to_inst and devid_cache)
which are present in the archive but are also subject to automatic
updates at essentially arbitrary times while the system is running. Jan
& crew are working on fixing these.
- Bill
