read-only filesystems

John Abreau jabr at abreau.net
Wed Mar 19 14:32:42 EST 2003


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kclark at CetaceanNetworks.com (Kevin D. Clark) writes:

> > Have you actually tried running it and it failed, or are you just assuming 
> > that /dev must be on a writeable filesystem? 
> 
> Yes, I've tried it, and yes, it fails, for a number of reasons.
> 
> For example, it seems like the mingetty processes are dying, probably
> because they can't chown the ttys that they are attempting to handle.

That's right, I forgot that the ttys need to be chowned. 

Actually, you could always put the root filesystem on a ramdisk when 
booting the system. I believe most, if not all, distributions do this 
as part of their installers. 


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