Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 14:25:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Wade <mwade@cdc.net> To: "Jeffrey S. Sharp" <jss@subatomix.com> Cc: freebsd-small <freebsd-small@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mounting and Corruption Rehashed Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10004041420150.22626-100000@server2> In-Reply-To: <001f01bf9e6a$3a0b3c00$2aa85c0a@vulcan>
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On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote: > Please excuse me if the following is a dumb question: why even mount the > flash _read-only_ in the first place? If /var and /tmp are on separate > filesystems (MFS), what write operations are going to happen to the flash > that mounting read-only would prevent? > > Thanks, as always, for any helpful information. If you ever plan to upgrade the software or store configuration / data on your flash then you obviouslly have to mount rw sometime. Your application may not require this though... --- Mike Wade (mwade@cdc.net) Director of Systems Administration CDC Internet, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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