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Date:      Wed, 7 Apr 2010 14:46:48 -0600
From:      Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com>
To:        Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How customized can an mfsroot be?
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On 4/6/10, Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> wrote:
>>What incidentally does /var get populated with? Our image has a custom
>> directory under /var but this did not show up in the MFS versions of this
>> directory. I can get >around this but I wonder what else might not be
>> included?
>
> I found something else that's missing--/var/db/pkg is empty. It looks like
> what the auto-var process does is a construct basic directory structure but
> no data. Is there a solution to this? Can I get /var to be populated with
> the full contents of the real /var?
>
>

Not that I know of, unless you use the advantages of mfs then.  Full
circle, bud.  Now you're asking for necessities of the mfs or mfsroot
systems.



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