On 11/16/2018 3:47 PM, David Young wrote:
I added a line to /etc/fstab,
swap /mfs tmpfs rw,-s8M 0 0
If memory is limited, doesn't that make creating a MFS swap just useless
overhead? I.e., if you need to page to swap, you're just consuming memory
set aside FOR swap instead of "main
On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 10:28:56PM -0700, Don NetBSD wrote:
> I've a box with a DoM. I'd like to mount / as ro and create a
> tmpfs for /var (and /tmp). I don't think anything else NEEDS to
> be rw (the infrequent changes to /etc can be made by unlocking /
> to make those chan
Don NetBSD wrote:
I've a box with a DoM. I'd like to mount / as ro and create a
tmpfs for /var (and /tmp). I don't think anything else NEEDS to
be rw (the infrequent changes to /etc can be made by unlocking /
to make those changes).
I imagine I can just make a tarball of a skeletal /var
On 11/16/2018 12:35 PM, Rhialto wrote:
I once made a little script to make a bootable ISO9660 live file system,
given the distribution tarballs. It has to be able to live on a
read-only medium, hence it uses a tmpfs for /var. For initializing it,
it installs a script in /etc/rc.d. I basically
On 11/16/2018 11:12 AM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Don NetBSD wrote:
I've a box with a DoM. I'd like to mount / as ro and create a
tmpfs for /var (and /tmp). I don't think anything else NEEDS to
be rw (the infrequent changes to /etc can be made by unlocking /
to make those
I once made a little script to make a bootable ISO9660 live file system,
given the distribution tarballs. It has to be able to live on a
read-only medium, hence it uses a tmpfs for /var. For initializing it,
it installs a script in /etc/rc.d. I basically used trial and error;
everything
On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Don NetBSD wrote:
> I've a box with a DoM. I'd like to mount / as ro and create a
> tmpfs for /var (and /tmp). I don't think anything else NEEDS to
> be rw (the infrequent changes to /etc can be made by unlocking /
> to make those changes).
>
> I imagi
I've a box with a DoM. I'd like to mount / as ro and create a
tmpfs for /var (and /tmp). I don't think anything else NEEDS to
be rw (the infrequent changes to /etc can be made by unlocking /
to make those changes).
I imagine I can just make a tarball of a skeletal /var and
unpack this over
