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Date:      Mon, 28 Sep 1998 21:47:44 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu (Allen Smith)
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, security@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Booting from NT ?
Message-ID:  <199809282147.OAA07076@usr04.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <9809280220.ZM6404@beatrice.rutgers.edu> from "Allen Smith" at Sep 28, 98 02:20:33 am

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> > The minimal modification is an MFS /var, mounted early, and a symlink
> > from /tmp -> /var/tmp, yes.
> > 
> > Having a DEVFS (with SLICE) also helps... one less thing to deal
> > with not being R/O.
> 
> Question... what does happen if one has a R/O root filesystem,
> including /dev, without DEVFS? I'm constructing a firewall computer
> with a (switchable - a nice facility of some Seagate drives) hard
> drive for root, a second writeable drive for /var and swap, and a /tmp 
> MFS. What problems am I likely to run into with /dev? I'd really
> prefer not to have it as a symlink to /var/dev or some such...

It works.

For a bastion host, there's really no reason to have it writeable
anyway...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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