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Date:      Mon, 5 Apr 2010 21:28:59 -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 4/5/10, Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> wrote:
>>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
> media. Definitely glad I don't have to mess around with a mfsroot
> environment.
>
> Thanks for the tip!
>
> Peter


Mistakes often lead to the greatest discoveries.  I had made a CD,
thinking I'd have to go through the same process of an mfsroot.
Booted the sucker, no errors, and I was about to fall over.  Since
then, I have learned the mfs_root (which has it's benefits, no
doubt...) method.


Glad to enlighten you.



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