From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 21 22:25:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA17101 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 22:25:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.8.15.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA17091 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 22:25:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danny@panda.hilink.com.au) Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA17563; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 17:25:11 +1100 (EST) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 17:25:11 +1100 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: One-floppy FreBSD + rich networking In-Reply-To: <199801220050.LAA00403@word.smith.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > Not to mention the rather attractive security and reliability implications > > > of running off of a read-only medium. > > > > Can FreeBSD run from read-only media? Aren't there some files in /etc > > that need to be writable at run-time? > > I think it's pretty close. You need a writable /var & /tmp, but apart > from /etc/motd there doesn't appear to be anything else. This leads me back to the /var/run/subdir question. What was the conclusion? xntpd's driftfile is another example of something which sort of belongs in /var/run, but should be preserved across reboots. Danny