Konnichiwa. I have an ALIX (one of those little x86 boxes). As it uses CF as storage (limited read/write cycles) I want to mount it read only. That's the easy bit.
As OpenBSD writes information to disk during normal use I would like to mount as much as possible in RAM (mfs) so that normal operation continues. For instance during boot, unless I mount /dev in RAM I get a whole bunch of error messages (a whole bunch). :] Also the pf log spits errors at me quite regularly - no surprises there. Originally I mounted /dev and /var in RAM with the following (cat fstab): /dev/wd0a / ffs rw 1 1 swap /dev mfs rw,-P=/populate/dev,-s=16384 0 0 swap /var mfs rw,-P=/populate/var,-s=32768 0 0 swap /tmp mfs rw,-s=16384 0 0 Hey I solved my first problem (I think). I was going to ask how to populate (-P) the mfs mounts without having to duplicate the original directories on my CF (/populate). I think I could populate them straight from the original directories. :] Anyway, are there other ways to populate mfs mounts with system files? Is there any way to mount only the specific files I need? For instance if I never use a specific log file is there any way to not mount it? Reading the man pages seems to suggest that mount only works on directories. Best wishes. _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
