Re: Using a recovery partition to repair a broken installation of FreeBSD

On 03/09/2025 00:16, Warner Losh wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM Jordan Gordeev <jgopensource@proton.me 
> <mailto:jgopensource@proton.me>> wrote:

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> Yes. But if they haven't setup the rescue with your plan, they'd be out 
> of luck. That's why I'd like a small, targeted environment that's well 
> defined that we can boot to. It will be without bells and whistles, but 
> will be enough to recover. There will be an editor, commands to interact 
> with the network, the storage stack, etc. But we'll need to be careful 
> what else is in there. And it will be different choices from /rescue 
> (though maybe rescue needs a rethink for several items, like including ipf).
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> So I'd strongly suggest that we walk before we can run. Let's get 
> something with a small, well-defined remit working, and we can iterate 
> from there.
> 
> Warner

I definitely agree with the last paragraph. There have been so many 
cases where interesting ideas never came to be realized (or took many 
years to do so) simply because the discussion got out of hand and the 
original simple idea was killed by heavy arguments of excessive engineering.
Start with a simple implementation that requires minimal effort, please.

Kind regards
Miroslav Lachman