[Soekris] mounting /dev in RAM in OpenBSD

[Chris Cohen]

On Saturday 22 December 2007 19:51:16 Jussi Peltola wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 08:29:11PM +0200, Lars Noodén wrote:
> > I'd like to move the directories that are frequently written to off of
> > the CF and into RAM so that / can be mounted read-only.
> >
> > /tmp and /var can be managed simply by modifying /etc/fstab:
> >
> >  #  /var.base has a template of directories to populat /var with
> >  swap /var mfs -P/var.base,-s16000,async,nosuid,nodev,noatime,rw 0 0
> >  swap /tmp mfs async,nosuid,nodev,noatime,rw,-s=15000 0 0
> >
> > It's not the same with /dev, however.  I've tried a few variations, e.g.
> >
> >   swap /dev mfs -P/dev.base,async,rw,-s=5000,-i=128 0 0
> >
> > but none allow the system to finish booting.
> >
> > What are the good ways to do work with /dev in RAM ?
>
> What writes in /dev? Isn't it just device nodes?

Openssh needs to write to some devices. (Don't know which ones..)

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Greetings
Chris