Re: CF and Disk Writes

"David Simmons" <[email protected]> writes:
> How do I know what else will write/destroy the CF without putting
> the write-protect on the whole thing (since it needs to be 'open'
> for the leases file?)

Along the lines of what a few other people have posted (Chuck Yerkes
for one), I modified the rc file to not remount the CF read/write at
boot time, and to extract a tar file of /var into an MFS partition.

While I'd prefer a physically read-only card for security, this setup
allows normal operation while reducing the re-writing demands on the
CF.

This does seem to be frequently requested, so maybe it should be part
of the "core" emBSD distribution.

> PS.  It's been mentioned on the list to 'read the archives', but I
> have yet to find a good 'search' feature? Am I missing it?

Yes.  It's called "google". :)  Google seems to have complete archives
of the list.  For instance:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=embsd%20cf%20read%20only&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wg

Steve.