Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 11:18:30 -0400 From: Michael Sinz <msinz@wgate.com> To: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, Michael Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Pawe=B3?= Jakub Dawidek" <nick@garage.freebsd.pl>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardlinks... Message-ID: <3CBEE3C6.DDEB6683@wgate.com> References: <200204081841.g38Ifi104580@mass.dis.org> <3CB21C40.A62B442@mindspring.com> <20020408232326.GB1749@dan.emsphone.com> <3CB26A58.AD809508@mindspring.com> <20020409003838.F31507@blossom.cjclark.org>
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"Crist J. Clark" wrote: > > 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. Actually, with minimal work in the rc.diskless* files, we have a very workable, large-scale system with / as Read-Only. In fact, only /dev and /var are read-write (well, in testing we also have a /sewer for coredumps) /dev and /var are local RAM disks (and /tmp points are /var/tmp) One of these days I will want to write up some of what we did. It really is rather nice to have a whole cluster of machines sharing the same install and the boot server. -- Michael Sinz ---- Worldgate Communications ---- msinz@wgate.com A master's secrets are only as good as the master's ability to explain them to others. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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