On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:11:11PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > Info: I have a page that summarizes read-only root issues: > http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/readonly-root.html Things like: * ifupdown writes to /etc... a bug? aren't really relevant for this, since they can be "configured" out of the way (in this case by making /etc/network/ifstate a symlink to /var/run/ifupdown-state, and making sure /var/run is available early enough). This isn't a general solution, but it is enough to get livecd's working (where you already know you're mounting /var as a ramdisk). I do wonder if we wouldn't be better off just saying "/var will be mounted by the time /etc/rcS.d/S40networking runs", even if that means systems that NFS mount /var have to have special networking scripts they use to do that. That makes the common case (where /var is a local disk or a ramdisk) easy, but the uncommon case is still possible. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Australian DMCA (the Digital Agenda Amendments) Under Review! -- http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/copyright/digitalagenda
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