"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. -- Michael Sinz ---- Worldgate Communications ---- [EMAIL PROTECTED] A master's secrets are only as good as the master's ability to explain them to others. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message