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? -- Jim Wise jwise at draga.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 841 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20131108/c3e58ea8/attachment-0005.sig>