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You are on point. I still use OpenBSD where it makes sense though—in your case it does not. All my OpenBSD systems are backed by a UPS, but a crash, while rare, could still readily cause file system corruption.

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Here's how I solved it:

https://www.mimar.rs/blog/how-to-increase-openbsds-resilienc...

I know of the non-standard workarounds, I'm just not interested in doing them unless it's for a very specific deployment and needs to be repeatable across a large number of systems.

Great article and a cool way to learn more about the inner workings of OpenBSD, thanks for sharing. I like the idea of a separate /var/syspatch directory. I typically make separate /var/log and /var/www directories too.

I noticed you're using a good quality SD card and wrote a couple times about flash wear, is there any reason you didn't opt for an mSATA SSD? It might be more resilient than SD.

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