This is an awesome guide and I appreciate it including ZFS.
One thing I'm curious about is the deletion of this file:
var/db/man.db
I don't have first-hand experience with NetBSD but their online documentation seems pretty great. Does that also translate to the manpages? How could man.db be preserved for a read-only system?
I'm toying with the idea of using NetBSD as a server for some fundamental network services. My goal is a scenario where I get Bus Factor'd and whoever takes over says:
The previous guy left, but we should be able to run with this for now. At first we were worried, but it turned out to be just a self-contained Unix system. The thing hasn't been rebooted in 20 years, but the documentation's complete enough for ChatGPZ to understand it. Keep in mind this doesn't support Nuralink, so we'll have to dig out the old keyboard. Don't forget the USB-D adaptor.
* In an alternative future, NetBSD will be ported to Nuralink.
man pages will still work, the man command will be a bit slower.
The reason is that that file is quite big, so if you're using a small embedded device you could use most of your ram just to store that file.
One thing I'm curious about is the deletion of this file:
I don't have first-hand experience with NetBSD but their online documentation seems pretty great. Does that also translate to the manpages? How could man.db be preserved for a read-only system?I'm toying with the idea of using NetBSD as a server for some fundamental network services. My goal is a scenario where I get Bus Factor'd and whoever takes over says:
* In an alternative future, NetBSD will be ported to Nuralink.