[Voyage-linux] Samba server on 0.6.5 with ro rootfs

[Pierre-Yves Paulus]

Hello,

I'm in the process of setting up a system based on an ALIX board with 
Voyage Linux 0.6.5.

The system is installed just fine, but I'm having trouble to get a samba 
server up and running without having to switch the root fs to rw, which 
I do not want to.

The files to be served are on a tmpfs, and they do not need to persist 
between reboots, so that's not a problem.

Following info posted there by Michael Fung:
http://voyage-linux.34677.n3.nabble.com/Samba-amp-Voyage-6-5-td441406.html

What I did is

remountrw
apt-get install samba
mv /var/lib/samba /var/tmp/samba
ln -s /var/tmp/samba /var/lib/samba
fastreboot

And it doesn't work: /var/tmp/samba doesn't survive a reboot, once moved.

 From what I understand, samba needs rw access to /var/lib/samba all the 
time, and it was the point in moving it above. But it doesn't seem to 
work (at least in 0.6.5).

How can that be achieved without switching the whole fs to rw?

Thanks a lot in advance,
Best Regards
Pierre-Yves