Re: mount_seed_tmpfs

[Dennis den Brok <d.den.brok%uni-bonn.de@localhost>]

matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost> schrieb:
> For running read-only systems I know it's sometimes common to run /var
> in a tmpfs/mfs and to seed the files/directories with a tar file at
> startup.  I have never been a big fan of the tar file idea, so I wrote
> mount_seed_tmpfs which will populate a tmpfs filesystem from the disk
> before taking over the mount point.
>

I've often wished for something like this in NetBSD. However, there is
prior art in OpenBSD and DragonFlyBSD, and I find their user interface
a little more elegant: both use a command line switch instead.

Cf. 
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mount_mfs&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=mount_mfs&section=ANY

-P or -C, respectively.

Regards,

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Dennis den Brok