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<body class='hmmessage'>Hi, to enable me to install packages and make symbolic links in the right places, would anyone be kind enough to clarify how the read only, read write file system works?<BR>
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I have seen snippets in previous mailing list conversations: "The /ro directory is copied in the boot process to the /rw system which lives in a TMPFS structure, so, no power, no more bits."<BR>
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However checking /ro/etc/ on my box:<BR><BR>
route-hq:/etc# ls -ln /ro/etc<BR>total 20<BR>-rw-<FONT face="">r</FONT>--r-- 1 0 0 44 Feb 17 00:22 adjtime<BR>-rw-<FONT face="">r</FONT>--r-- 1 0 0 28 Oct 28 2006 issue<BR>-rw-<FONT face="">r</FONT>--r-- 1 0 0 21 Oct 28 2006 issue.net<BR>-rw-<FONT face="">r</FONT>--r-- 1 0 0 0 Feb 29 14:49 mtab~<BR>drwxr-xr-x 3 0 0 4096 Feb 29 14:49 network<BR>-rw-<FONT face="">r</FONT>--r-- 1 0 0 53 Jul 28 2007 resolv.conf<BR>
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and comparing with /etc/ i know /etc/ has a lot more files in it, so i don't understand or i cannot see how these files are getting copied from as they certainly don't seem to be coming from the /ro directory.<BR><BR>
Also, looking at the scripts remountro and remountrw i see a binary called sync is called, is this a custom written application? Does it search the /rw file system for changes and write to /ro?<BR>
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Many thanks,<BR>
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