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Date:      Tue, 09 Jun 1998 23:07:25 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        sbabkin@dcn.att.com
Cc:        itojun@iijlab.net, mike@smith.net.au, core@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-jp@jp.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: new config 
Message-ID:  <22166.897426445@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jun 1998 17:01:38 EDT." <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EEFF8B22@dcn71.dcn.att.com> 

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In message <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EEFF8B22@dcn71.dcn.att.com>, sbabkin@dcn.att.com writes:

>> 	4. The last part of the configuration script mounts the
>> 	   quasi-root on "/rootfs" and establish symlinks to
>> 	   make things look like they used to:
>> 
>> 		for i in etc bin sbin usr var tmp
>> 		do
>> 			ln -s /rootfs/$i
>> 		done
>> 
>> 	5. Delete files no longer needed on the MFS to preserve RAM
>> 
>Alternative approach: mount the traditional root filesystem
>on /, and the config-filesystem on /stand or something like.

That would take more magic, which doesn't buy us any advantage
that I can see.  There even is a performance gain in having
the / directory live in ram.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
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