Re: CF and Disk Writes

Chuck Yerkes <[email protected]> writes:
> Quoting [email protected] ([email protected]):
>> 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.
>
> Actually, I have /var/mfs/  mounted.
> On startup, after mounting that, I rsync -av /var/mfs.PROTO/ /var/mfs/
> It's got the basics to run (dhcpd.leases, some namedb stuff I want,
> structure for /var/run/).

Yeah, I think you probably have a slightly more refined setup.  I went
for a quicker hack to get it in place.  The idea came from your posts,
though.

> I tweaked libutil to use /dev/term/  for ptys.  
> Must redo that "right" to get wtmp to work, but on login,
> there's a chown that happens to the device, so the startup
> also does:
>   mount /dev/term/  #(mfs)
>   (cd /dev/term && sh /dev/MAKEDEV terms)   #(build devices on /dev/term/).
>
> I'd done those libutil hack a long time ago when I was playing
> with readonly root partitions in general.

I haven't seen problems (so far) without any libutil or pty changes.
Under what circumstances do you run into problems if you don't do it?

Steve.