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BSD: zpool and NetBSD
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Dan Langille ☛ Running short on space on the FreshPorts development zpool
It’s been some time since I asked for public donations for hardware. In this case, I’m asking for donations to buy two more storage devices to expand this zpool: [...]
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Benny Siegert ☛ Booting NetBSD from a wedge, the hard way
I have a Raspberry Pi 3 with NetBSD 10, running CI jobs. Because SD cards are notoriously unreliable, I attached a USB hard drive to it. The HDD has a swap partition and scratch space for the builds, while root is on the SD. Unfortunately, some writes end up going to the root file system after all, which meant that the SD card was destroyed after only about a year!
So I set out to put the root file system onto the HDD as well, only using an SD card for loading the kernel.
This is an RPi3 running in 32-bit mode with the “classic” RPi bootloader, no UEFI. So it will load config.txt from the FAT partition on the SD card and load the kernel that’s in there. In theory, the cmdline.txt file is supposed to give the root file system, but somehow, changes to this file had no effect (???). But we can force the kernel to use a certain root file system location!