Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 17:25:11 +1100 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: One-floppy FreBSD + rich networking Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980122172243.29251z-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199801220050.LAA00403@word.smith.net.au>
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On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > Not to mention the rather attractive security and reliability implications > > > of running off of a read-only medium. > > > > Can FreeBSD run from read-only media? Aren't there some files in /etc > > that need to be writable at run-time? > > I think it's pretty close. You need a writable /var & /tmp, but apart > from /etc/motd there doesn't appear to be anything else. This leads me back to the /var/run/subdir question. What was the conclusion? xntpd's driftfile is another example of something which sort of belongs in /var/run, but should be preserved across reboots. Danny
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