[SOLVED] Web Gui does not show 15.1.7.1 update as being available.

[franco]

Thanks for the reply, good, then I think we have this sorted for the next release push. Thank you.

TMPFS I would like to move up on my list now. Can you tell me more about selective /var mounting? that sounds like a sensible approach with TMPFS as the base.

[Davesworld]

In looking at /var, it looks as though a somewhat reverse situation might be needed, most of /var would run fine in TMPFS, in fact all of it if the system once an hour backed up /var/log, as well as /var/db into their own tarballs or combined into just two or even one. As it is now, only rrd and dhcp leases are backed up optionally at the optional selected frequencies. For flash installations, the logs should not be kept all that long as you would be able to don on a 120GB hard drive. Personally, my file server is set to listen for forwarded logs and I made the /var partition on that server huge so it won't fill up anytime soon. On flash type installs where /var is mounted in volatile ram, forwarding logs to a server are the best way to go and have the system, Opnsense in this case, rotate them out in no more than a week.

As far as TMPFS, whatever formats and mounts MFS now, would be easy to convert to TMPFS, delete the format and partition section and just mount it with optional arguments. I like no arguments and just let it size at the default 50% of ram. It's also not the greatest idea to run swap on a Flash system. My test sytem is using two Cfast (native sata interface) running in a mirror and 16GB of ram, I think my next install I will NOT put a swap partition in it at all. The Cfast cards I have use MLC which like CF cards have a limited amount of read/write cycles.

[franco]

So the new install media will have tmpfs usage shipped with 15.1.9. The bsdinstaller bits are yet to be added to deploy it on the installed systems as well. No ETA, but we're making progress. Thanks.

[weust]

Will this require a re-installation, or will the update take care of it as well?

[franco]

Probably without a reinstall, although I would prefer proper noauto fstab entries, which should require a reinstall, but then again those need a legacy fallback. :/

[weust]

Sounds like some serious testing is in order before pushing that update then.

[franco]

Resurrecting this ancient thread for a public service announcement: we will have /var + /tmp TMPFS support in 15.7.2:

https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues/243