From: Andreas Kahari (andreas.kaharigmail.com)
Date: Mon Feb 07 2005 - 03:05:16 CST

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Instead of copying the devices, why not simply recreate them in the right place?

Andreas

On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 22:08:54 -0600, Breen Ouellette <the.manbreeno.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been doing some tests in preparation for setting up OpneBSD in CF
> on a Soekris machine. I have used this command:
>
> mount_mfs -o rw,nosuid,noatime,noexec -i 128 -s 1184 -P /dev swap /mnt
>
> It copies /dev to a memory file system which is located at /mnt for
> testing purposes. It duplicates /dev on /mnt. I will eventually use
> fstab to do something similar to mount /dev as a memory file system, as
> reading I have done indicates that this will help prolong the life of my
> CF card.
>
> Problem is, I get this error:
>
> pax: /mnt/./log skipped. Sockets cannot be copied or extracted
>
> Sure enough /dev/log is not replicated on /mnt. I've done a search of
> the error message on google, which returns some source code that doesn't
> help me out. I had a look at the syslogd man page and the
> /etc/syslogd.conf file, but I haven't found that magic piece of info
> that will solve this dilemma.
>
> How should I go about ensuring that my mfs version of /dev has a log socket?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Breen
>
> On a side note, does anyone have suggestions for the best way to
> automatically dump the contents of a memory file system back to CF on a
> reboot or halt?
>
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