"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.

Actually, with minimal work in the rc.diskless* files, we have a
very workable, large-scale system with / as Read-Only.  In fact,
only /dev and /var are read-write (well, in testing we also have
a /sewer for coredumps)  /dev and /var are local RAM disks (and /tmp
points are /var/tmp)

One of these days I will want to write up some of what we did.  It
really is rather nice to have a whole cluster of machines sharing the
same install and the boot server.

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