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RE: root filesystem read only?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Heltzel, Dennis)
Mon Nov 2 10:24:58 1998
From: "Heltzel, Dennis" <DHeltzel@IKON.com>
To: "'redhat-list@redhat.com'" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Cc: "'qcoldiron@yahoo.com'" <qcoldiron@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 10:23:01 -0500
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You can run the root FS from the RAM disk and mount almost everything from
CD (I leave /etc, /tmp, /var ,/dev in RAM).
You should check out the Linux Router Project, as most of the work has been
done for you.
http://www.linuxrouter.org/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Quinn Coldiron [SMTP:qcoldiron@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 02, 1998 10:15 AM
> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> Subject: root filesystem read only?
>
> Can the root filesystem be set read only? We are building a firewall,
> and want the system to be on a bootable CD-ROM, so everything is read
> only. The way I understand it is that /var would need to be
> writeable, for the system logs, so we are thinking of putting it in a
> ram drive. Will this setup work? What do I need to change so the
> kernel knows it is OK for the root filesystem to be read only?
>
> Quinn
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