How customized can an mfsroot be?

[Tim Judd]

On 4/5/10, Peter Steele <psteele at maxiscale.com> wrote:
>>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


Mistakes often lead to the greatest discoveries.  I had made a CD,
thinking I'd have to go through the same process of an mfsroot.
Booted the sucker, no errors, and I was about to fall over.  Since
then, I have learned the mfs_root (which has it's benefits, no
doubt...) method.


Glad to enlighten you.