Error message using mount_mfs -P option

[Breen Ouellette <the_(_dot_)_man_(_at_)_breeno_(_dot_)_net>]

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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