On 12/11/2009 12:33 PM, David Burgess wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Jim Pingle <li...@pingle.org> wrote: >> On 12/11/2009 12:22 PM, Paul Mansfield wrote: >>> can you do overlay file systems on freeBSD, so that the base OS and >>> config is read-only and you overlay a read-write file system at a very >>> late stage in booting IF that overlay is uncorrupted? >>> >>> when you've made changes to config, if the worst happens simply boot >>> without the overlay >> >> You can with unionfs. I'm not sure how well it's working these days in >> practice. (As far as being production ready for everyday use as opposed >> to used in the installer, etc) > > Well, it didn't take long for this conversation to go over my head. > I've got some work to do to learn about overlay filesystems and > unionfs. I do love a good learning project.
It would probably be much easier to alter only the settings of a package to point to an alternate storage location. You do not need to keep /usr/local stuff rw, it typically does not change (especially the binaries). There may be some system settings in /usr/local/etc/ that might need carried over, but if you can configure paths for things in freeswitch like you can in squid, it shouldn't be that hard. Squid would be easy: Make a new mount point, mount a filesystem, point the cache directory at /otherdrive/squid/cache/ instead of /var/squid/cache. Jim --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
