I've been happily using 1.2.3-RC1 for many months now on a Soekris net5501 and a 100GB 2.5" SATA drive. I like the idea of an embedded system on a CF card, but that's not possible or advisable for me as I'm running the squid and freeswitch packages.
I was wondering however, if it would be difficult, inadvisable, or of no advantage to hack together an embedded system to run from a read-only CF card that mounts certain filesystems on writable media, such as a hard drive, where temp data such as disk cache and audio recordings would live. I don't know a tonne about the innards of pfsense and I've never played with the nanoBSD version. Is this something that would work in principle? Would it exploit the benefits of a read-only root filesystem (cold-reset resiliency, improved fs security, system responsiveness)? Would it require a lot of messing, besides manually altering /etc/fstab? Just wondering. db --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
