Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 23:49:17 -0700 From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: read only / filesystem Message-ID: <20000824234917.A93373@mammalia.org> In-Reply-To: <20000825111535.F548@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 11:15:35AM %2B0930 References: <20000824002732.A45983@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000824101341.D66923@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000824130404.A51338@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000825111535.F548@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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And Greg Lehey spoke: > On Thursday, 24 August 2000 at 13:04:04 +0100, j mckitrick wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:13:41AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Thursday, 24 August 2000 at 0:27:32 +0100, j mckitrick wrote: > >>> > >>> i've decided so try a suggestion i heard here: > >>> i'm going to make / read only. when i booted, i saw a bunch of messages > >>> about / being read only. is there anything i need to do special to prevent > >>> problems from this setting? > >> > >> Obviously. Read the messages, decide what to do, and do it. > > > > i didn't want to break anything in the process. the commands causing the > > messages must be there for a reason. > > Right, they're there in case the permissions were changed earlier. > That won't happen on a read-only file system. > > > also, are there any benefits to doing this, or is the noatime option > > good enough? > > There are certainly benefits. It makes the system a lot more crash > resistant. > > Greg I make small changes to /etc fairly often. Is it assumed that if one is making / read only that the system should be fairly well locked into the configuration that is desired? Or is it easy enough to simply remount / rw when changes to /etc are needed? Joseph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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