Re: beginnings of a diskless boot sequence being committed

1999-01-25 Thread Bill Trost
Luigi Rizzo writes: > :I haven't seen how you suggest to build&populate the MFS filesystems -- ... > There isn't much to build. Most of the MFS filesystems start > out empty. ok here we use a different approach. For simplicity I am using a single MFS system with al

Re: mounting double-ended SCSI disks

1999-01-19 Thread Bill Trost
Satoshi Asami writes: However, if I try to mount it from B read-only while A is mounting it read-write, it succeeds. This looks dangerous, as A writing data onto the disk could cause B's cache to go stale without B knowing it. Just about as dangerous al letting A mount it read-onl

Re: Can the bootloader create a file or set a flag in the bootblocks?

1999-01-16 Thread Bill Trost
Mike Smith writes: > It would be kind of cool if when managing a remote system if > /kernel failed to boot, then on the next boot, the loader will > fire up /kernel.old, or a /kernel.somethingorother. We're trying to work out a clean way of managing that sort of persistent stat