Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 18:14:34 -0500 From: "Clark C . Evans" <cce@clarkevans.com> To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: read-only CD-ROM boot partition for webfarm? Message-ID: <20020227181434.A17592@doublegemini.com>
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Hello. I'm building a webfarm and other than the apache
configuration and webpages, the core operating system and
/usr partition is/should-be relatively static (scp used to
update stuff in a /data partition). I'm using vinum to
mirror /data.
How hard would it be to make a bootable CD-ROM image with
everything on it except the data, log-files, etc?
This would have three advantages for me:
- Vinum doesn't protect the boot partition since
it is a kernel level module.
- Having a true read-only file system really would
make it hard for crackers.
- Updating boxes on the webfarm could be as simple
as swapping a new CD-ROM!
Thoughts?
Clark
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