Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:29:18 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Nejc_=A9koberne?= <nejc@skoberne.net> To: Paul Hamilton <paulh@bdug.org.au> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive Message-ID: <45F5014E.8080908@skoberne.net> In-Reply-To: <074301c7643c$ec68e060$6600a8c0@w2k2> References: <074301c7643c$ec68e060$6600a8c0@w2k2>
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Hi Paul, > I am booting from a 512MB CF card, and run /var and /tmp from a RAM drive. > Upon startup, the CF card /var and /tmp dir. are copied into the ram drives, > the rest is Read Only. When it shuts down (not very often), the ram drive > contents are copied back to the CF card. You could backup the ram drive to > CF more frequently if required. I run off of 12V battery, so power failures > don't affect me all that much. You could monitor the Battery/UPS for power > failure conditions if needed etc. Running FreeBSD 6.0. Cool! Is there a "proper" way of copying from/to /var and /tmp at boot and at shutdown or did you make the scripts on your own? So far, my boxie has be running flawlessly, I have also hard-rebooted it during a file copy and everything was OK with the filesystem. However, I put in two flash drives and made a gmirror out of them for redundancy. Today I am putting it to a remote location and I hope everything will run there too. Thanks to all, Nejc
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