One option is to have two filesystems, / and /var. Leave / mounted
	readonly and set the fsck of /var to use '-f' for the very small
	chance something bad could happen there.

	To admin the box mount / rw, then downgrade it to ro when done.

-- 
		David/absolute		-- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --


On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Jenkins, Graham K [IBM GSA] wrote:

> I have seen NetBSD 4.2 on I386 come up with a corrupted root filesystem
> after a power bounce on a couple of occassions. If we could use
> journaling on the root filesystem (like a couple of other OS's!), that
> might alleviate the problem.
>
> And of course, the Penguin people have a router-on-a-floppy that looks
> OK. But I'd rather do it with NetBSD.
>
> G.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Woyciesjes
> To: 'Jenkins, Graham K [IBM GSA]'; port-i386@netbsd.org
> Sent: 6/9/01 12:26 AM
> Subject: RE: Quick and Dirty Router
>
> 	Well, yeah, it writes to the disk. Mine comes back up fine after
> a
> power outage.
> I'm just curious, why don't you want writes to the disk? You never did
> quite
> say...
>
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>
>
> -> -----Original Message-----
> -> From: Jenkins, Graham K [IBM GSA]
> -> [mailto:Graham.K.Jenkins@team.telstra.com]
> -> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 10:40 PM
> -> To: port-i386@netbsd.org
> -> Subject: RE: Quick and Dirty Router
> ->
> ->
> -> Thanks David - but my quick browse suggests that this
> -> thing still writes to a hard disk while operating - which
> -> presents a risk of reboot failure after a power outage.
> ->
> -> True ??
> ->
> ->
> -> > -----Original Message-----
> -> > From:	David Woyciesjes [SMTP:DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu]
> -> > Sent:	Friday, 8 June 2001 11:34 am
> -> > To:	'Jenkins, Graham K [IBM GSA]'; port-i386@netbsd.org
> -> > Subject:	RE: Quick and Dirty Router
> -> >
> -> > Check out http://www.dubbele.com...
> -> >
> -> >
> ->
>