Re: dbootstrap now working, busybox needs serial con change.
Erik Andersen <andersen@xmission.com> writes:
> On Fri Nov 12, 1999 at 04:21:47PM +0100, Eric Delaunay wrote:
> > Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > > Yuck yuck yuck. Isn't there a better (simpler) way?
>> I like this solution especially for nfsroot because the filesystem
>> could then be mounted read-only instead of rw with root access. It
>> will be more secure. We could then write all temporary data to
>> /var/tmp for instance.
>>
>> I don't think it is needed for initrd because the ramdisk is
>> already writable. Just keep enough space to store the log (256k
>> could be too much, maybe 100k ?).
> Ok, we have one for and one against (if I am considered neutral).
> If we can get a consensus, I will implement whatever folks decide
> on.
> I'm about to blow away my neutrality, but I like the usyslogd
> plus ram disk approach. We just mount the ram disk on /tmp, and
> make /var/{log,run,lib,whatever} symlinks to /tmp. Then we just
> decide on some arbitrary upper bound for tmp data (100k, 256k,
> whatever) and that will be the size of the ramdisk.
Ok -- I approve. Go for it. My only objection is (a) it consumes ram
-- keeping it down to 100k will help, (b) I was worrying that it was
complex and thus could fail. Maybe that concern is unfounded.
This is in case of serial console only? Or...?
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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