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On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 10:55:42AM -0800, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
Rodrigo Barbosa rodrigob@suespammers.org wrote:
Having /etc readonly is kind of tricky. Are you sure that is a good idea ?
That was my exact thought as well. You can separate out everything except /etc, which really needs to be on /.
Ideally any programs/services should not be automatically writing to /etc (but /var or /srv instead), but that's hardly the reality.
Maybe I'm just used to the old SysV systems, but every time I see /etc/mtab as a link to something on /var I want to scream.
We also have to remember that historicaly the homedir for root was /. Even these days we still see it as /root. I'm sure you remember all the reasons for it not being on /home, so I won't get into that.
Anyway, I agree that ideally the changeable areas should be restricted, or at least grouped, to simplify management.
It is, of course, theoreticaly possible to have / mounted ro. Will take a good bunch of symlinks, tho, so I would not recomend it to anyone.
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