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Subject: Re: comments on this change please.
To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer)
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 03:46:31 +1000 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <326C6524.41C67EA6@whistle.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Oct 21, 96 11:09:40 pm
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> please comment.
> I'm trying to get a production r/o root system out the door
> and we have to get around syslog somehow..
> 
> note that this system also works with devfs because devfs 
> supports symlinks.
> 
> julian

Speaking of root only file systems, it would be nice to have a static
root file system - that is one that never needs to be modified i.e
over-ride hooks for various config files in /usr/local/etc, or a decent
union over-ride.

Is anyone using devfs as a real /dev? It seems to me that devfs is flawed for
/dev replacement, insofar as the non-permanency of permissions/other inode
information. imho, the desired structure is to have symlinks in /dev pointing
to /devfs, with the permissions copied off the *symlinks* and into /devs at
boot (either that or symlinks that actually enforce their permissions)


-- 
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely  exercised for the good of its victims  
 may be the most  oppressive.  It may be better to live under  robber barons  
 than  under  omnipotent  moral busybodies,  The robber baron's  cruelty may  
 sometimes sleep,  his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who  
 torment us for own good  will torment us  without end,  for they do so with 
 the approval of their own conscience."    -   C.S. Lewis, _God in the Dock_ 
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