Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 00:38:38 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: 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: <20020409003838.F31507@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <3CB26A58.AD809508@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:13:12PM -0700 References: <200204081841.g38Ifi104580@mass.dis.org> <3CB21C40.A62B442@mindspring.com> <20020408232326.GB1749@dan.emsphone.com> <3CB26A58.AD809508@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.
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