Re: FreeBSD as read-only firmware

2012/11/3 Lev Serebryakov <lev_at_freebsd.org>

> Hello, Alexander.
> You wrote 3 ноября 2012 г., 16:14:21:
>
> AY> Hello all!
> AY> Some time ago I got somewhere idea, that base OS should be RO -
> readonly.
> AY> And should be updated easily (ACID) and with possibility of fast
> rollback.
>  Why it is better than nanobsd?
>

Of course,  that's all IMHO and fit for my usage:
1) Same FreeBSD, as in laptop/desktop, (e.g. really same - GENERIC kernel
is used, without dropping any kerberos or else), and yes, I know that
nanobsd can that;
2) .vmdk simply deployed into Esxi/virtualbox (not sure nanobsd can produce
that)
3) Transparent /etc/ modifiying VS nanobsd approach (edit, don't forget
mount /cfg, copy there;)
4) Only OS, no packages included - e.g. I can upgrade/downgrade packages
without touching any byte of OS. Except for symlinks :) nanobsd specified
that if you want packages - you need built them in.

Of course differences not so big, and I'm not saying that my way is more
better.
It just raised question deep in me - why OS still aren't modularized, and
most of it not in RO (while it should).

Something like this




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Regards,
Alexander Yerenkow