configuration tweaks for CF-based systems?

2008-04-03 Thread Fred Snurd
There was mention a few days back that the following still contains useful information when it comes to reducing the amount of writing done to CF-like systems: http://blog.innerewut.de/2005/05/14/openbsd-3-7-on-wrap Yet I'm puzzled by the desire/need to move /dev into mfs. The timestamp on

Re: configuration tweaks for CF-based systems?

2008-04-03 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 13:05 -0700, Fred Snurd wrote: There was mention a few days back that the following still contains useful information when it comes to reducing the amount of writing done to CF-like systems: Send mea dmesg(8) and I'll send you a 4.3-current CF image built using

Re: configuration tweaks for CF-based systems?

2008-04-03 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Fred Snurd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yet I'm puzzled by the desire/need to move /dev into mfs. The timestamp on the files within /dev don't change, so what is the reason for moving the device nodes into memory? Are there parameters which are frequently

Re: configuration tweaks for CF-based systems?

2008-04-03 Thread Fred Snurd
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Chris Kuethe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try this: ls -ltr /dev | tail ; date ; tty This explains a lot. Thanks. The article referenced discusses copying /tmp, /var, and /dev into a memory-based filesystem. Obviously, the contents of /tmp don't need to