Stateless livecd problem

[Ralf Ertzinger]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:27:10PM +0100, Jean-Marie Renouard wrote:

> How can we solve this problem in order to be able to restart a server 
> from a livecd with the same services running ?
> How can we set up or mount /var in a read/write mode and keep original 
> data available too ?

The usual approach is to mount the directories needed as tmpfs (/var/run,
for example). Most of it is volatile data anyway, so it does not matter if
the contents disappear when rebooting.