From owner-freebsd-small Wed Feb 27 14:54:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from clarkevans.com (209-9-30-66.sdsl.cais.net [209.9.30.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEA1C37B417 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 14:54:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from cce by clarkevans.com with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16gDHO-0004c8-00 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 18:14:34 -0500 Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 18:14:34 -0500 From: "Clark C . Evans" To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: read-only CD-ROM boot partition for webfarm? Message-ID: <20020227181434.A17592@doublegemini.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message