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Date:      Mon, 5 Apr 2010 21:40:10 -0500
From:      Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com>
To:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: How customized can an mfsroot be?
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>If FreeBSD cannot write to /tmp or /var on boot, it automatically creates =
a MFS filesystems for those mountpoints
>and mounts them during boot.  You don't need to do anything.
>
>It works as the same readonly compactflash environments out there.

D'oh! Man, wish I had known that. I just tried it and it worked fine. So I =
should have no problem converting my cloning process over to an iso/cd medi=
a. Definitely glad I don't have to mess around with a mfsroot environment.

Thanks for the tip!

Peter




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