Hi,

>>I be thinking about moving off the CF?  (i.e. /var/log/? - assuming I 
>>don't care to persist logs across reboots...)


If you don't care about anything persisting across reboots you can put 
everything on the ramdisk:

See here

http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=49309&tstart=0

I tested this approach and documented it here:

http://home.arcor.de/bnsmb/public/htdocs/Xen_and_Solaris.html#How_to_create_a_Solaris_DomU_or_Dom0_that_boots_from_a_RAM_disk


regards

Bernd


Kent Watsen wrote:
>
> I sent this to osol-discuss but didn't get a response - anyone of this 
> list know?
>
> Thanks,
> Kent
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject:
> [osol-discuss] CF install best practice
> From:
> Kent Watsen <kent at watsen.net>
> Date:
> Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:42:49 -0400
> To:
> opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org
>
> To:
> opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm planning to install on and boot off of an industrial-strength 
> compact flash drive.  The system will be a Xen Dom0 where each DomU 
> mounts its storage off an iSCSI-mounted SAN.  Since the DomUs will not 
> be using the CF, the CF's wear will only reflect the Dom0's activity.  
> Even with an industrial-strength CF, the CF can only support a limited 
> number of writes before it starts to go bad...   I know that "swap" and 
> "/var/run" are in memory (via tmpfs), but what other directories should 
> I be thinking about moving off the CF?  (i.e. /var/log/? - assuming I 
> don't care to persist logs across reboots...)
>
> What do other people do?
>
> Thanks,
> Kent
>
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