On Sep 04 12:53:05, [email protected] wrote: > I Noticed the following line on start-up in 7.7 > creating runtime link editor directory cache ? > > I was wondering will the runtime link editor directory cache result in > additional writes to the filesystem
It writes /var/run/ld.so.hints $ du -hs /var/run/ld.so.hints 10.0K /var/run/ld.so.hints There is no point worrying about that. > and would it be useful to memory mount > the filesystem to reduce writes to the filesystem (to increase the > resilience of OpenBSD based routers / firewalls in the field ? ) In my experience, it is way more trouble that it is worth. In this particular case, it is a write of a few KB. > we currently memory mount the following mount points to reduce flash wear What flash wear? > and probability of a write to the ssd during a power interruption > ##extract of my /etc/fstab below > > swap /tmp mfs rw,nosuid,noexec,nodev,-s=262144 0 0 > swap /var/log mfs rw,nosuid,noexec,nodev,-s=524288,-P=/persist-fs/var/log 0 > 0 > swap /var/run mfs rw,nosuid,noexec,nodev,-s=262144,-P=/persist-fs/var/run 0 > 0 So you already do have /var/run on mfs.

