On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 01:06:46AM -0400, Chris Buechler wrote:
>While CF size is probably not an issue for the majority of
>installations, if you bump the image size to, say, 16 MB, you're going
>to start seeing issues on systems with 64 MB RAM on upgrades at a
>minimum.  m0n0wall runs from RAM, so that's an extra 8 MB of RAM use,
>and then when you upgrade another 16 MB free space needed to hold the
>new image.
I mentioned this in an earlier thread, but it should be possible to eliminate 
the need to run from memory in all but net boot situations. Either a 
file-backed root can be mounted, with the sections that need to be writeable 
mounted from a memory-backed fs, of the whole filesystem can be overlayed with 
a memory-backed union mount. Either way, only the things that changed would 
require ram. As far as performance degredation goes, FreeBSD has excellent 
filesystem cacheing. Unless a system is pressed for RAM, most of the 
filesystem would wind up resident in the RAM cache anyway.

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Kris Maglione

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