Re: /run and read-only /etc
Overall I think it is wonderful to see support for read-only root being
worked on.
On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 15:41, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Jeremy Jackson wrote:
>
> (doing this with bind mounts)
>
> >2.2 kernels are out though.
>
> As are BSDs. I have no idea whether the Hurd supports bind mounting.
>
Can it be assumed that all systems that may use this support ramdisks?
What other schemes would allow a read-only root? Mounting a small fs on
/run (although I hope it's not in the root directory)?
> In most cases, just moving the files somewhere more sensible like
> /var/run is sensible. The only argument should be over files that need
> to be written before /var has been mounted, of which there should be a
> very small number. It should be possible to deal with this in a simple
> fashion.
The technique involving bind mounts can be done with a regular mount, it
would just take a few more steps:
Mount ramdisk or whatever other rw fs on /etc/run very early in boot.
Whatever needs to scribble in it does so, and everything works. If later
the root FS is mounted rw, copy contents of /run to temp dir, unmount
/etc/run, clear it out, then copy it all back.
I think it's the least invasive technique, although I agree that some
things that are messing about in /etc and can do it in /var should be
fixed.
--
Jeremy Jackson <jerj@coplanar.net>
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