Bryan J. Smith wrote: > Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at 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. > > It is not impossible. Debian is very near to being able to do this and it is possible on Gentoo with some simple modifications.