On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 12:33 +0200, David Walker wrote: > Hi Stuart. > > On 12/05/2009, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I use a bunch of CF based systems, and mount most of them read-write. > > I've done so for years, and haven't had any problems as a result. > > > > I've had cards fail, but mostly after just a month or two, and other > > identical cards bought at the same time in the same conditions (similar > > number of write/erase cycles) have been totally ok, so I'm putting that > > down to individual bad cards. > > I will stop stressing then. > > >> 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. :] > > I'd like a recount on that. Obviously it will not work. Haha. > > >> 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? > > > > No. > > > > You could adjust the path of some file in syslog.conf and > > newsyslog.conf though. There is also the option of using a circular > > memory-buffer for logs, see syslogd(8) -s, syslogc(8), syslog.conf(5), > > but you probably need to write to some other things in /var (e.g. > > /var/run, /var/tmp; they could be symlinks though). > > That's the kind of road I was thinking of. > > > At least if a file is never used, it's not going to take a lot of > > space on the ram disk :-) > > True. > It bugs me to duplicate every file in /var. > Especially things like /var/www/icons ... > It really bugs me to duplicate /dev and /var on the CF to be able to > copy them to RAM. > Triplicate. > > I think some fancy script is what I need. > MAKEDEV to my RAM /dev and changing the paths to the log files. > I know I won't sleep well till it's done. :] > > Thanks for the clarification. > > Best wishes. > _______________________________________________ > Openbsd-newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
Hi, try this: http://www.nmedia.net/flashdist/ I've used it for wraps, now I use it for alixes, never had single problem. br angello _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
