From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 22 08:37:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA28075 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 08:37:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from helmholtz.salk.edu (helmholtz.salk.edu [198.202.70.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA28070 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 08:37:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bartol@salk.edu) Received: from dale.salk.edu (dale [198.202.70.112]) by helmholtz.salk.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA01784; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 08:34:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 08:34:58 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Bartol Reply-To: Tom Bartol To: Mike Smith cc: Snob Art Genre , Amancio Hasty , Andrzej Bialecki , Jonathan Mini , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: One-floppy FreBSD + rich networking In-Reply-To: <199801220050.LAA00403@word.smith.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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. > O.K. How about this: would it be possible to use an mfs for /var. Of course, using an mfs for /tmp is trivial but /var needs to contain certain subdirs. Tom