On Jan 04 21:18:51, Jiri B wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 01:12:43AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > What's the advantage in having /etc on mfs? Why not just remount / > > readonly after booting and mount it read/write when you need to make > > changes? If you're looking at something more than this then take > > a look at how flashboot does things but I'd only consider that in > > special cases.. > > I wanted to separate service from (not much important) data thus I > installed OpenBSD on little usb stick and dedicated normal disk > for my own data (mp3, source repo, etc...). If the disk would go > down, no problem, dns/ssh/pf etc would still work OK. (I'm ignoring > here discussion if the problem is more disk or power supply.)
So you store your mp3's on your firewal and DNS server, because you want to "separate service from data"? > So why /etc on mfs? Maybe I'm thinking that always remounting rw / > because little changement of a config file would be too much work when > computers could do that for us invisible in background :) "Always". How often do you edit /etc on the machine that runs dns and pf for you? Also, what does mfs have to do with this?
