Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:56:31 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Nejc_=A9koberne?= <nejc@skoberne.net> To: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive Message-ID: <45F2104F.7090304@skoberne.net> In-Reply-To: <20070309182513.V27680@wonkity.com> References: <45F1BF10.7040109@skoberne.net> <45F1C2FC.4080201@skoberne.net> <20070309182513.V27680@wonkity.com>
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Hi, > m0n0wall gets around this by running out of RAM after booting from flash > (or CD, or hard disk): Yes, I know both m0n0wall and pfSense, but I prefer a custom FreeBSD installation since I have developed some custom scripts which I would like to use. This is what I am trying to do now - booting the system from flash IDE drive, creating mfs filesystems for /tmp and /var (just enabling them in rc.conf) and mounting all the partitions read-only. And of course I configured syslog to log to some remote host. So when I need to make a configuration change (rc.conf, dhcpd.conf), I just remount / or /usr read-write temporariliy, make the change and then remount back to read-only. This way, I guess, there will be minimal writes to the drive. Now I plan to do some power outage testing. Will let you know. Thanks to all of you, Nejc
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