From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 24 18:53: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hokkshideh.jetcafe.org (hokkshideh.jetcafe.org [205.147.43.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06DC237B401 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:52:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from hokkshideh.jetcafe.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hokkshideh.jetcafe.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA01089; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:52:36 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200101250252.SAA01089@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with version: MH 6.8.4 #1[UCI] To: chris@calldei.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD off of CDROM Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:52:35 -0800 From: Dave Hayes Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Costello writes: > When you boot into your CD, and after the CD is mounted as /, > mount the disk as a union with the CD /. The result is that > you'll have the executables on the CD, but any data being written > will go to the disk. Hmm, I had considered that strategy. What I noticed was this line in the man pages for mount_union(8): BUGS THIS FILESYSTEM TYPE IS NOT YET FULLY SUPPORTED (READ: IT DOESN'T WORK) AND USING IT MAY, IN FACT, DESTROY DATA ON YOUR SYSTEM. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. BEWARE OF DOG. SLIPPERY WHEN WET. Naturally, given this information, production systems with that strategy are fairly out of the question. ------ Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< Possession of a system of knowledge, or any part of it, or an interest in it or in discovering one, shouldn't be assumed to confer any license or capacity to operate it. Individual criticisms of a system, incapacity to operate it, or dissatisfaction with it should not be confused with any shortcoming of the system itself. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message