[CentOS] Install to internal USB?

[Thomas Göttgens]

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.

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Von: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] Im Auftrag
von Jim Wise
Gesendet: Samstag, 9. November 2013 00:02
An: CentOS mailing list
Betreff: Re: [CentOS] Install to internal USB?


On Nov 8, 2013, at 17:48 , John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> 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?

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				Jim Wise
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