readonly-root with a non-readonly-root

[Bill Nottingham]

Paul B Schroeder (pschroeder at uplogix.com) said: 
> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit currently gets the relies on getting $READONLY from 
> /etc/sysconfig/readonly-root.  It uses this to determine whether or not to 
> call /etc/rc.readonly and whether or not to remount the root filesystem in 
> read-write mode.
> 
> In some instances (think flash based filesystem), it would be desireable to 
> run the rc.readonly script (we don't want to burn up the flash), but still 
> have the root filesystem in read-write mode (we still want to be able to do 
> some filesystem editing).  Maybe rc.sysinit could check two separate 
> variables to control this?
> 
> $EXEC_RC_READONLY or whatever you would want to call it, could be used by 
> rc.sysinit to determine whether or not to exec rc.readonly.  And $READONLY 
> could still be used to determine whether or not to remount root read-write.

What exactly are you trying to do - bind mounts for temp state + rw fs?

Bill