stateless linux, and read-only root

Stephen J. Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Mon Mar 27 20:41:18 UTC 2006


On 3/27/06, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> For FC6 we're looking at bringing forward and integrating some of the
> Stateless Linux work. More detail will be up at:
>
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StatelessLinux
>
> although probably not for a couple of days.
>

Will there be a dedicated mailling list or just talk over the main
lists. I am mostly needing this for NFS diskless clients. Most of the
data needs to be RO, but some stuff should be RW (utmp and such :))


> One of the main tenets of this is that the system filesystems should
> be able to run read-only; there's no reason for apps to be writing
> to the system filesystem in general use. However, tracking this
> can be difficult; you don't want to force everyone to run read-only
> just to get data on their workloads.
>
> So, what we've worked on is a way to simply log what apps are writing
> to (or trying to write to) the system filesystems. This is now
> available at:
>


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Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator




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