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Re:Mmm, Pi-hole by ryandrake on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @11:46AM (#18077111)
Back in the day (also before ext4) we solved this by mounting the root filesystem read-only. Depending on any other application for the machine, you may not need filesystem writes at all once it is set up. Bonus: it’s even friendlier to the flash.
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Re:Mmm, Pi-hole by jschwartzi on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @06:37PM (#18080855)
This is how I've solved the problem in the past. Too bad systemd discourages this. It also doesn't protect the partition where your database and log files are kept.
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Re:Mmm, Pi-hole by _emacsomancer_ on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @11:07PM (#18081879)
I'm running a Rpi with 64bit kernel & runit as init via Void Linux, so you're not necessary stuck with systemd as the only option for Rpis.
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Re:Mmm, Pi-hole by freeone3000 on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @11:03PM (#18081862)
Yet another reason to not run systemd. (Also, systemd? On a router? That's excessively overkill. Why not a sane init, like SysV?)
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Re:Mmm, Pi-hole by jschwartzi on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @11:19PM (#18081922)
You're assuming I make routers.
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