On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 10:19:45AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 11:37:13PM -0800, Matt Peterson wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > I've made some updates to rc.d/rc.diskless for use in read-only flash
> > systems (typically Soekris, etc embedded boards). phk said I should
> > track down DougB, who appears to have his plate full, so hopfully
> > someone else can step in.. ;)
>
> I can work on this. I've got an intrest in diskless setups my self.
> Some comments:
>
> Replacing tabs with spaces makes the diffs hard to follow.
>
> I like the idea of extending diskless to read-only systems. I can't
> access the alternate patch you mention in your PR so I'm not sure how
> that works. Autodetection looks like a somewhat tricky issue, but I'm
> sure there's a solution if that's desired.
>
> Moving newaliases makes sense.

I'm worried about all the calls to grep. Since grep lives in /usr/bin
this makes things kinda sticky (not to mention a call to sed).

-gordon