Re: System unique identifier.....

Werner Almesberger (almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch)
Sun, 27 Jun 1999 01:57:52 +0200

tytso@mit.edu wrote:
> Yes, this should work. I agree it would be nice to have a
> architecture-indepedent persistent system metadata that was accessible
> very early in the boot process. But that really isn't realistic.

Sorry, I didn't follow the whole thread, but what you're describing here
sounds like initrd. There's nothing really stopping you from mounting the
file containing the (uncompressed) initrd as part of normal system
startup, and making changes to it every once in a while.

- Werner

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