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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 00:38:38 -0700
From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:13:12PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
[snip]

> It's arguable that "/" and "/usr" themselves should be
> mounted read-only,

It's not very practical to have / read-only on a truely multi-user
(the only time this linking stuff is much of an issue) 4-STABLE
system. The two main reasons being /etc/master.passwd, et al, and the
problems with a read-only /dev. It takes extensive customizations and
kludges to get this to work.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org

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