Re: AW: RE: [CentOS] read only root file system

2008-05-02 Thread Torsten Luettgert
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 19:22 +0200, Marc Rebischke wrote: > I am looking at having a read only box, it will not use a swap > partition. > Any recommendations? I built a diskless, CD-based firewall some time ago which works fine. Of course you still need some writable directories, i.e. /var/run, /va

AW: RE: [CentOS] read only root file system

2008-05-02 Thread Marc Rebischke
I am looking at having a read only box, it will not use a swap partition. Any recommendations? Well, i tried two possibilities years ago.. 1.) : There are SCSI-Disks with jumpers for "Write Protect" , so you have a real Hardware write-protection. 2.) : Have a look at (Open)BSD's "Immutable Fla