Please review http://plone.lucidsolutions.co.nz/linux/io/using-centos-5.2-stateless-linux- support-on-a-flash-based-root-filesystem It's for CentOS 5.2 but the provided configuration settings apply to the entire 5.x series. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Jim Wise Gesendet: Samstag, 9. November 2013 00:02 An: CentOS mailing list Betreff: Re: Install to internal USB? On Nov 8, 2013, at 17:48 , John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/8/2013 2:40 PM, Jim Wise wrote: >> It?s worth noting that FreeNAS does more or less exactly this, using a USB drive with a more-or-less read-only OS image to serve some number of spinning or flash disks. > > yeah, but whats on that USB stick is mostly a single file thats loaded > into a ramdrive, and a single XML file thats updated when you make > configuration changes, which typically isn't very often... Yeah, true. How close is Centos (or the upstream) to being able to run with all but /var and /tmp readonly? -- Jim Wise jwise@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos