Re: [leaf-devel] New linuxrc mods ready for testing

2004-03-14 Thread Greg Morgan
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: I finally have a working update to the /linuxrc script for bering. I was playing with the lrcfg* files at the end of February. Part of the exercise was to understand how the LEAF backup and configuration menu system works. By the time I finished I had a cross-platfor

RE: [leaf-devel] New linuxrc mods ready for testing

2004-03-14 Thread Alex Rhomberg
Charles wrote: > Hmm...I like this idea, but why make a symlink from /var/log rather than > simply mounting your persistent log device directly to /var/log, instead > of the tmpfs ramdisk? Because I wanted to allow to use a directory on an existing partition instead of necessarily requiring a co

RE: [leaf-devel] New linuxrc mods ready for testing

2004-03-14 Thread Alex Rhomberg
Eric wrote: > Although I do like the idea of mounting a "persistent" device for > things like logs I see a few serious drawbacks. LEAF is designed, > with reason, to run from ram and don't has all the tools/scripts > for checking various filesystems. I use a journaling filesystem, of course (ext3

Re: [leaf-devel] New linuxrc mods ready for testing

2004-03-14 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
re: mounting various partitions in /linuxrc I have been thinking more about this issue, and have come to the following conclusion (mantra). Repeat after me: ... linuxrc IS NOT init ... ... linuxrc IS NOT init ... ... linuxrc IS NOT init ... The sole purpose of linuxrc (IMHO) is to build enough

Re: [leaf-devel] New linuxrc mods ready for testing

2004-03-14 Thread Erich Titl
At 16:36 14.03.2004 -0600, you wrote: >re: mounting various partitions in /linuxrc > >I have been thinking more about this issue, and have come to the following conclusion >(mantra). Repeat after me: > >... linuxrc IS NOT init ... >... linuxrc IS NOT init ... >... linuxrc IS NOT init ... true, t