On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 01:12:43AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > What's the advantage in having /etc on mfs? Why not just remount / > readonly after booting and mount it read/write when you need to make > changes? If you're looking at something more than this then take > a look at how flashboot does things but I'd only consider that in > special cases..
As I'm not building super-small embedded appliance the flasboot is not optimal. I wanted to separate service from (not much important) data thus I installed OpenBSD on little usb stick and dedicated normal disk for my own data (mp3, source repo, etc...). If the disk would go down, no problem, dns/ssh/pf etc would still work OK. (I'm ignoring here discussion if the problem is more disk or power supply.) So why /etc on mfs? Maybe I'm thinking that always remounting rw / because little changement of a config file would be too much work when computers could do that for us invisible in background :) (If it would not crash before sync, of course.) jirib
