"Crist J. Clark" wrote: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:13:12PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > [snip] > > > It's arguable that "/" and "/usr" themselves should be > > mounted read-only, > > It's not very practical to have / read-only on a truely multi-user > (the only time this linking stuff is much of an issue) 4-STABLE > system. The two main reasons being /etc/master.passwd, et al, and the > problems with a read-only /dev. It takes extensive customizations and > kludges to get this to work.
It depends. If this is a truly multiuser environment, then you are probably getting your authentication from NIX or RADIUS. It's really arguable that /etc should be a nullfs mount off of somewhere else and/or variable information belongs in "var" or some other place... Sun has been able to do this since 1988 or so (at least). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
