On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 10:24:27AM -0800, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
> 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).

I'd definatly plan to remove all /usr stuff before the "mount -a" and
limit it after. I'm pretty sure autodetection can be done with shell
matching and possiably expr.

-- Brooks

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