eeePC 900 with SSD && reducing writes

[Oliver Fromme]

Matthias Apitz wrote:
 > Oliver Fromme wrote:
 > > You can get rid of an on-disk /var alltogether.
 > > Add these lines to /etc/rc.conf:
 > > 
 > > varmfs="yes"
 > > varsize="32m"
 > > 
 > > It will create a memory FS for /var of 32 MB (default).
 > 
 > Thanks for the hint, but memfs is not so good because you will loose
 > /var/db; I've created a symlink now from /var/log to /tmp/log and /tmp
 > is memfs;

It depends what you need from /var/db.  In my case I didn't
need anything from it, so losing it was OK.

Another possibility is to create a "static" var directory
somewhere (on flash memory), e.g. /svar, and write a small
script or mtree file that creates symlinks from the memfs
/var to the static /svar, e.g. /var/db -> /svar/db.

Yet another solution would be to use unionfs, or a skeleton
.tar.gz file that contains initial things for memfs /var.

There are many possibilities to choose from.  :-)

Best regards
   Oliver

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