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Subject: Re: regenerating /var/db/pkg
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On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 08:56:39AM -0500, Dan Rue wrote:
> 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, 

You can look into how NanoBSD does things if you want to go this route.

-- WXS