From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 10 09:30:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E56B37B404 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:30:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from boreas.isi.edu (boreas.isi.edu [128.9.160.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7E8043FE0 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:30:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from faber@ISI.EDU) Received: from pun.isi.edu (pun.isi.edu [128.9.160.150]) by boreas.isi.edu (8.11.6p2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id h5AGU9100701; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:30:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pun.isi.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pun.isi.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5AGU9eA069776; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:30:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from faber@pun.isi.edu) Received: (from faber@localhost) by pun.isi.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h5AGU8WG069775; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:30:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:30:08 -0700 From: Ted Faber To: Terry Lambert Message-ID: <20030610163007.GA69675@pun.isi.edu> References: <23893.209.236.210.66.1055178986.squirrel@mail.romero3000.com> <20030609180452.GJ61917@pun.isi.edu> <3EE5BF3B.705B2E36@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EE5BF3B.705B2E36@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-url: http://www.isi.edu/~faber cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: romero3000@romero3000.com Subject: Re: ramdisk?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:30:12 -0000 --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:21:31AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Ted Faber wrote: > > I mount a swap backed fs (which I what I suspect you want) with: > > I don't think he wants swap backing; I'm going to be that > his system will have no swap, in order to avoid write > cycles using up his flash... he probably just wants a small > amount of volatile storage for /var/run, /var/log, and /tmp, > with everything else mounted read-only to avoid the access > timestamp updates. Yeah, I should have been more clear. The recipe I gave him didn't reserve any swap, and I don't think there's be any attempt to write to disk unless he filled memory. --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+5gePaUz3f+Zf+XsRAlvwAKD5vIqn4xAdhjniRbUvvZiOBa/hpQCbBR2V O1UhVjWvifhVl0Mw4Lb/kho= =fnbS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb--