tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2914337944584630860.post92535471916580276..comments2012-01-03T22:54:13.137-08:00jharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11394843967897495538noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2914337944584630860.post-1150268696326294172008-08-19T13:56:00.000-07:002008-08-19T13:56:00.000-07:00Awesome blogpost, best MFS guide on the net so far. <BR/><BR/>I found some small socket, .db issues, but nothing major. :)<BR/><BR/>I detailed my installation procedure in this post;<BR/><BR/>http://techblagh.blogspot.com/2008/08/installing-openbsd-43-on-soekris-5501.html<BR/><BR/>CheersJacobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12947272494317611184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2914337944584630860.post-61269319852304619522008-07-03T00:25:00.000-07:002008-07-03T00:25:00.000-07:00Laurent,<BR/><BR/>I read your comment and said to myself "It just works". Then I went and took a look at my Soekris and, sure enough, / is mounted rw, however that is probably because I've needed to update my pf.conf a few times since last boot.<BR/><BR/>I am not sure how this post has gone this long without me noticing this slight discrepancy. <BR/><BR/>The catch is this point:<BR/><BR/>Most volatile stuff lives on /var and /dev, which is mounted rw in memory. The rsync in rc.shutdown and cron is designed to keep this in sync with what is in /mfs so that it can be repopulate at boot.<BR/><BR/>However the problem is that the cronjob and rc.shutdown should temporarily remount / rw to succeed, because with / mounted ro they will certainly fail:<BR/><BR/># mount -o ro /<BR/># mount<BR/>/dev/wd0a on / type ffs (local, noatime, read-only)<BR/>mfs:2518 on /var type mfs (asynchronous, local, noexec, nosuid, size=32768 512-blocks)<BR/>mfs:25922 on /dev type mfs (asynchronous, local, noexec, nosuid, size=8192 512-blocks)<BR/># touch /var/blah<BR/># touch /mfs/var/blah <BR/>touch: /mfs/var/blah: Read-only file system<BR/><BR/><BR/>Thanks for pointing this out. If I am correct in my assumptions, I'll update this post accordingly.<BR/><BR/>Thanks!<BR/><BR/>-jonJon Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410754059921403771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2914337944584630860.post-24554261388007943192008-07-02T23:21:00.000-07:002008-07-02T23:21:00.000-07:00Jon,<BR/><BR/>Nice guide. One question for you though - as I understand it, /var is being synced back to /mfs/var, however /mfs resides in / which has been mounted read-only. How is it that you sync back to a read-only filesystem? <BR/><BR/>Laurentlaurenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02386618315962999117noreply@blogger.com