In message <61411576E951D211AF330008C7245DD90818E00E@ntmsg0005.corpmail.telstra
.com.au>, "Jenkins, Graham K [IBM GSA]" writes:
>I have seen NetBSD 4.2 on I386 come up with a corrupted root filesystem
>after a power bounce on a couple of occassions. If we could use 
>journaling on the root filesystem (like a couple of other OS's!), that
>might alleviate the problem.
>
>And of course, the Penguin people have a router-on-a-floppy that looks
>OK. But I'd rather do it with NetBSD.


THe way I'd do it is wtih a ramdisk, just like the install 
floppies or CDs.  Boot from that medium, uncompress to ramdisk, and run 
that way.  The physical disk could then be read-only.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb