Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 11:44:44 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Reinier Bezuidenhout <rbezuide@oskar.nanoteq.co.za> Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Saving some info in PicoBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9901261142420.22371-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <199901260635.IAA19742@oskar.nanoteq.co.za>
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On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Reinier Bezuidenhout wrote: > Hi ... > > > On 26-Jan-99 Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > > On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > >> I dunno if one can save data from memory to disk, else that will be one > > >> of the first picoBSD native tools we are going to have to introduce =) > > >> > > >> sync_mfs or such? > > > > > > Easy, easy... Let's try to look around before we jump to conclusions (or > > > even implementations.. ;). 10 points to anyone who will tell me what the > > > /stand/update is for. > > > > Ehm, it updates MFS configfiles to disk? =) > > When does /stand/update get called then ??? I copied rc.conf in the Explicitely - never. You have to do it manually. > /etc directory to another file in the /etc directory .. say oops.conf. > > I then press ctr-alt-del and it says "syncing ...." but on a reboot > the file is gone ... shouldn't /stand/update then be called during > a reboot ??? No, because it's possible that you removed the startup floppy from the drive, or replaced it with some other. "syncing.." means the system is writing dirty buffers from memory to MFS, so in this case it doesn't buy you anything. Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- <abial@nask.pl> ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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