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Re: [Netconf] is "boot image" the right term?

tom petch <ietfc@btconnect.com> Thu, 23 August 2018 11:31 UTC

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From: tom petch <ietfc@btconnect.com>
To: Mahesh Jethanandani <mjethanandani@gmail.com>, Kent Watsen <kwatsen@juniper.net>
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Subject: Re: [Netconf] is "boot image" the right term?
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mahesh Jethanandani" <mjethanandani@gmail.com>
To: "Kent Watsen" <kwatsen@juniper.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2018 10:57 PM

>
> > On Aug 21, 2018, at 12:49 PM, Kent Watsen <kwatsen@juniper.net>
wrote:
> >
> >
> > Regarding what the zerotouch draft calls it, a person responsible
for JUNOS builds told me that the term "boot image" may not be a good
one; that it means different things to different people and will lead to
confusion.
> >
> > He suggests "software image" or "software package”.
>
> I would think that boot-image is more descriptive than “software
 image” or “software package”. Maybe adding a definition of boot-image
in the terminology section would alleviate any confusion people might
have.
>

I agree.

I am unclear which part of 'boot image' is thought  inappropriate.
'boot' is used in a large number of places in the I-D, by itself, in
bootstrap, BOOTP and so on so the use here of 'boot' seems right.

And what is being loaded is an image, that is something that needs no,
or very little, processing, not like code that needs compiling, linking
or some other processing before it can run.  You load the image, you
reboot and you have a system.  I know of no other word that conveys that
meaning (even if .img files are only loosely related).

That said, I would look again at the wording of
..able to update the boot image..
..includes updating the boot image,..
..raw boot image file ..
since, for me, you take or leave an image, you do not update it and it
is what it is, not raw, cooked or whatever.

Tom Petch

> > Does anyone have any thoughts about this?
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