On Nov 8, 2013, at 17:48 , John R Pierce pierce@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?