On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Anton wrote: > > anyone else set things up this way? comments? potential > > drawbacks? something horrific i've overlooked? > > With readonly /usr package installation will fail. > You will have to remount it RW to install rpms. i realize that, i figured that was obvious so i never mentioned it. my point was that, once i have my box set up pretty much the way i want, i can mount /usr RO which has a couple of benefits: 1) i can't accidentally damage anything, even as root 2) there's not much need for journalling at this point in addition, if i plan on making only occasional changes, should i even consider a totally different filesystem structure, which does away with the overhead of supporting changes? after all, at this point, i could even support /usr off of a CD with an ISO9660 filesystem (no, i have no intention of doing that, but it's theoretically possible.) is there a linux-supported read-only filesystem that is designed for pure speed? mostly, i was curious whether it was realistic to run a system this way, and so far, everything seems fine. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Eno River Technologies Unix, Linux and Open Source training Waterloo, Ontario www.enoriver.com
