Re: Future: fhs 2.3 compliance for fc3

[Chris Adams <cmadams hiwaay net>]

Once upon a time, Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> said:
> A possibly related discussion; we've been wondering if we can make the
> OS image read-only (mounting it that way, or via selinux).

I run with /usr read-only already, and if I didn't have users in
/etc/passwd I could mount / read-only.

> Then have /tmp and probably /var in RAM (or wiped on boot), and have
> home directories and server/app data such as web pages to be served on
> network mounts.

/var needs to continue across reboots, as that is where logs are (and
not everything can do network logging, nor do you want to log to an NFS
mount).  I don't see you being able to get away from having some local
writable storage.

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Chris Adams <cmadams hiwaay net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.