How customized can an mfsroot be?

Tim Judd tajudd at gmail.com
Tue Apr 6 21:29:42 UTC 2010


On 4/6/10, 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.
>
> What incidentally does /var get populated with? Our image has a custom
> directory under /var but this did not show up in the MFS versions of this
> directory. I can get around this but I wonder what else might not be
> included?


>From the var mtree spec

/etc/mtree/*  (if i recall, BSD.var.dist)


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