Re: How efficient is mounting /usr ro?

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> writes:

> On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 03:36:50PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> >Which you get from time to time due to programs opening files
> >read-write when possible, mtime and atime updates etc.
> 
> If you actually need to modify the file, then mounting ro won't work. If
> you don't need to modify the file, then there won't be any
> modifications. An atime update won't move blocks around on the disk and
> won't cause inconsistencies.

Don't tell me, tell the programs that do the opening.
The more common programs have gotten bugreports and have been fix, at
least I have nothing left that writes to /usr anymore.

MfG
        Goswin