Hi,

on systems with ro filesystems i create symlinks to a writeable (ramdisk) 
/var/ or /tmp partition.
I know this problem for more config files inside /etc/ than the resolv.conf.
I think thats the safest and "cheapest" way .-)

best regards
Harald


Am Mittwoch, 3. August 2011, 10:29:53 schrieb Micha?? Górny:
> Hello,
> 
> AFAIK NetworkManager is the most common tool which keeps writing
> to /etc/resolv.conf file during runtime. Such a solution makes it hard
> to support configurations where rootfs in read-only most of the time.
> 
> That's why I'm considering moving the resolv.conf file to /var. I'm not
> sure about the exact location there but /var seems much better for
> non-static resolver configs.
> 
> I think that the best solution would be to patch glibc so it will first
> try to load 'dynamic' resolv.conf from /var, and then fallback to
> static configs in /etc.
> 
> I'd really appreciate any kind of feedback on that idea.

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