tools for FreeBSD development

mingyanguo

From hackers mailing list.
> Alexander, when you say disk-less configuration, are you referring to
> booting from a network image/server?  That's an interesting idea.  I'm
> fairly new to FreeBSD development also, and prefer the speed of a dedicated
> box, but recently suffered my first corrupted beyond repair system.
This
is exactly the setup I use also. Most typically, the setup involves a
central development server running -STABLE, with a private network link
to a series of crash boxes. The development server NFS exports a file
system to use as an NFS root and for file sharing, as well as running
tftp and dhcp servers. The test boxes use PXE to boot fom the central
server. Each test system has its own exported root, so I can use
individual loader.conf's to tell test systems to boot off NFS, boot off
local disks, etc. I always load the kernel over NFS using pxeboot,
regardless of whether I boot boxes with a local root.
You get
some very nice effects -- you can easily move boxes between FreeBSD
versions by switching out root file system symlinks, you can be
building the next kernel while the previous one dumps core, etc.
Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
               
               
               

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