On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > 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. To build your rpms in your home directory have a look at: ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/hacks/rpmbuild-nonroot-1.0.tar.gz HTH, -- ......Tom Registered Linux User #14522 http://counter.li.org tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx My current SpamTrap -------> mtd123@xxxxxxxxxxxx
