> but there does seem to be some expectation of persistence for data > written to /var at runtime in most workloads. But you will lose /var on both unclean boots an power losses in your scheme.
> Understand that doing this this way means init(8) has a different view > of /etc's contents than the whole rest of the system. There are a > number of approaches for dealing with this; you can use the other image, > or you can drop a flag file or log of the changes you wanted somewhere > the early boot script (real /etc/rc) can find it, then cause a reboot. I don't get that (the solutions, not the problem). > I hope it was helpful. Yes.