From owner-freebsd-small Tue Apr 4 11:36:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from cdc.net (server1.cdc.net [207.244.0.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D1DE637B525 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 11:36:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwade@cdc.net) Received: (qmail 18195 invoked from network); 4 Apr 2000 18:25:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cdc.net) (207.244.0.13) by server1.cdc.net with SMTP; 4 Apr 2000 18:25:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 23038 invoked by uid 100); 4 Apr 2000 18:25:04 -0000 Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 14:25:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Wade X-Sender: mwade@server2 To: "Jeffrey S. Sharp" Cc: freebsd-small Subject: Re: Mounting and Corruption Rehashed In-Reply-To: <001f01bf9e6a$3a0b3c00$2aa85c0a@vulcan> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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