[vox-tech] familiar review

[Geoffrey Herteg]

To answer Bill's question about the filesystem layout in Familiar,
here's the scoop:

/ is a JFFS2 partition mounted RW.  RW?!  Yeah, but don't worry, it only
gets written to when you make a change to something like /etc/foo or
something else not in /var or /tmp.

/var and /tmp are kept in a ramfs partition in RAM, allowing the
frequent writes associated with these directories without slow write
times and/or wearing out a sector of flash.  The init scripts do
populate /var with some necessary data on bootup, but for the most part
I think the logs are lost on reboot.

Hope this answers your ? sufficiently, Bill!

- Geoff