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Date:      Tue, 10 Jun 2003 04:21:31 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Ted Faber <faber@ISI.EDU>
Cc:        romero3000@romero3000.com
Subject:   Re: ramdisk??
Message-ID:  <3EE5BF3B.705B2E36@mindspring.com>
References:  <23893.209.236.210.66.1055178986.squirrel@mail.romero3000.com> <20030609180452.GJ61917@pun.isi.edu>

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Ted Faber wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:16:26PM -0400, romero3000@romero3000.com wrote:
> > (sorry about cross-posting this question. not sure which list is better)
> >
> > I want to to know how to create a ram file system for /var and /tmp so
> > that i can boot from flash memory and mount those two file systems on
> > ramfs. I've looked for howto's online but haven't found anything. any
> > suggestions????
> 
> On CURRENT:
> 
> man vnconfig
> man vn
> 
> I mount a swap backed fs (which I what I suspect you want) with:

I don't think he wants swap backing; I'm going to be that
his system will have no swap, in order to avoid write
cycles using up his flash... he probably just wants a small
amount of volatile storage for /var/run, /var/log, and /tmp,
with everything else mounted read-only to avoid the access
timestamp updates.

-- Terry



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