Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 17:32:12 -0800 From: Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org> To: Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu> Cc: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com>, Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: One-floppy FreBSD + rich networking Message-ID: <19980121173212.02502@micron.mini.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980121164621.14765B-100000@dale.salk.edu>; from Tom Bartol on Wed, Jan 21, 1998 at 04:48:06PM -0800 References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980121170422.29748A-100000@echonyc.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980121164621.14765B-100000@dale.salk.edu>
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> Can FreeBSD run from read-only media? Aren't there some files in /etc > that need to be writable at run-time? You are thinking of Solaris/SunOS. FreeBSD can (and in many cases should) have a read-only /usr and / filesystems. Mount /tmp or /var as MFS or another filesystem and you're all fine and wonderful. I personally run kernel on one of my crash machines that NFS mounts / read-only, and mounts an MFS for /var. (/tmp is a symlink to /var/tmp) Since my / filesystem also contains the /usr hierarchy (minus home directories) I have everything available, and crashes and evil file corruption possibilites from an unstable kernel don't phase me. My /etc/rc.local script (of course) builds a new /var filesystem on every reboot, but it works great. -- Jonathan Mini Ingenious Productions Software Development P.O. Box 5693, Eugene, Or. 97405 "A child of five could understand this! Quick -- Fetch me a child of five."
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