Phil Harman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My general preference for disk-based appliances would be the same (i.e.
> install it all, use SMF to determine what happens, make robust booting a
> reality).
>
> However, now that flash memory is so cheap, I do think we should also
> look at solid state boot configs built around a lightweight, readonly
> filesystem image augmented by TMPFS and a small writable filesystem for
> configuration purposes (i.e. an extension of the install boot model).
This is not the solution for most problems.
Better would be the ability to use something like tfs to mount a tmpfs based
opaque layer on top of a read-only background FS
Jörg
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