From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 24 21:14:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D19B237B69D for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:13:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0P5Dn964730; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 22:13:49 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200101250513.f0P5Dn964730@harmony.village.org> To: Jordan Hubbard Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD off of CDROM Cc: chris@calldei.com, Dave Hayes , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:26:17 PST." <79090.980396777@winston.osd.bsdi.com> References: <79090.980396777@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 22:13:49 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <79090.980396777@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Jordan Hubbard writes: : You don't even need a disk if you have enough memory. You can come up : with an MFS and put everything you need to write on in that (via union : mount or symlinks or whatever). At timing solutions we found union mount to be a non-starter. Too unstable for long term operations. symlinks are what we use. I actually lied a little in a previous message. We do have a RW partition, but we only store application sepcific data on it. Of course our application doesn't have users who need to change their passwords.... And even if they did, a simple mount -uw / ; passwd ; mount -ur / would do the trick. Can't do that with cdrom :-) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message