Re: mount_seed_tmpfs

der Mouse <[email protected]> Sat, 9 May 2009 16:24:39 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.embedded
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> For running read-only systems I know it's sometimes common to run
>> /var in a tmpfs/mfs and to seed the files/directories with a tar
>> file at srtup.  I have never been a big fan of the tar file idea, so
>> I wrote mount_seed_tmpfs which will populate a tmpfs filesystem from
>> the disk before taking over the mount point.

Why not use a union tmpfs mount?

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