NanoBSD (Was Re: [CFT] packaging the base system with pkg(8))

[Daniel Eischen]

On Sat, 23 Apr 2016, Warner Losh wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 7:51 AM, Daniel Eischen <deischen at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
>
>> [CC trimmed]
>>
>> On Fri, 22 Apr 2016, Warner Losh wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I personally will be refraining from engaging further. I plan on seeing
>>> what gaps there are by adding support to NanoBSD for packages. I'll be
>>> busy
>>> with that. In talking to Glen and others, we've already identified a few
>>> easy gaps to fill. Once they've done that, I'll get going on NanoBSD with
>>> the goal to be able to use it to build a bootable system of any
>>> architecture from packages with no root privs. I expect to find issues,
>>> but
>>> I don't expect to find any issue that's intractable. I expect after the
>>> issues are resolved, the end product will be better for everybody.
>>>
>>
>> Thank you for working on NanoBSD.  Do you think it would be possible
>> to add support for optionally building dump(8) images instead of dd?
>
>
> What do you  mean by that, exactly? It would be relatively easy to add
> a step that runs dump on the _.disk.image file and squirrel that away.
> Last orders the code currently calls it, I believe. Is it something as
> simple
> as this, or is there some more complexity that I'm failing to understand
> or grasp?

Perhaps I'm missing something, but when last_orders() is called,
isn't the disk already unmounted and 'mdconfig -d -u' already
run?

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DE