How customized can an mfsroot be?

Peter Steele psteele at maxiscale.com
Tue Apr 6 02:40:13 UTC 2010


>If FreeBSD cannot write to /tmp or /var on boot, it automatically creates a MFS filesystems for those mountpoints
>and mounts them during boot.  You don't need to do anything.
>
>It works as the same readonly compactflash environments out there.

D'oh! Man, wish I had known that. I just tried it and it worked fine. So I should have no problem converting my cloning process over to an iso/cd media. Definitely glad I don't have to mess around with a mfsroot environment.

Thanks for the tip!

Peter



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