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On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 03:21:16PM +0300, Eitan Adler wrote:
> >
> > Just asking opinions, if people want this, I'll make a patch and
> > file a PR.
> >
> 
> Is this script correct?

We're starting to use SSDs for boot drives in our freebsd boxes.  We'd
like to have /var on a memory backed FS, but losing the package database
on every reboot is troublesome.  

This script would be a decent solution to my problem as well, 

Dan