[Soekris] "Squashed" versions of FreeBSD

[Brian Candler]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 12:41:08PM -0700, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> Given the size of your typical CF card these days (I walked
> into Frys and got 4 GB for $40 (not the cheapest either), and
> a Atheros-based wireless NIC for $10!), there does not seem to
> be much of a need to restrict size at the CF end of things.

Squashing is worth it if you want to run from a ramdisk root though (like
Meraki Mini does).

Small image contains kernel and ramdisk => boots and expands to RAM

This lets you have a couple of partitions for storing your kernel/ramdisk
pairs (so 'upgrading' a machine is just a case of overwriting one of those
partitions), and a third partition for data which is to be persistent.

I think NanoBSD works this way.

Regards,

Brian.