Re: DragonFly 3.4 release planning

[Chris Turner <c.turner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/31/13 18:27, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>      We would have a minimally working /boot-as-root for single user,
>      /boot-crypto-bootstrap, a method to get a safe non-lib root shell on a
>      live system that only needs to chroot to /boot.

Another couple of ideas also came to mind -

1) Varsyms could be used

    (install 2x to standard locations e.g. /bin/foo.dynamic /bin/foo.static
     with varsym default to static and an initscript to switch dynamic early
     in the multiuser boot process for those needing pam, etc)

2) A static initrd could be used similarly to the 'populated static /boot'
    proposal

Though thus far, to me, the 'populated /boot' sounds best b/c it could
potentially allow for non-initrd booting of crypto, etc and could be
leveraged for other things as mentioned, and doesn't clutter up '/'
but this is just my 2c

2c

cheers,

- chris