Re: [linux-lvm] vgscan && vgchange -ay at startup

[Patrick Caulfield <caulfield sistina com>]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:22:52AM -0500, AJ Lewis wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 04:00:12PM +0200, Goetz Bock wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Aug 21 '01 at 17:53, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > > But how to have root mounted read-only?
> > > I resolved problem with only one file that needs to be read-write --
> > > it is /etc/mtab that I moved out to /var/run (modified glibc and
> > this should be fixable with making /etc/mtab a link to /proc/mounts
> 
> I've done this on my system for about a month it seems to work fine.

Apparently there are problems with loopback mounts if you do this, but if that's
not an issue it should be fine.

patrick