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From: idc@cs.hw.ac.uk (Ian Crorie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.arch
Subject: Re: R/O root (was: Jerry Pournelle on UNIX)
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Date: 20 Jan 88 13:38:53 GMT
References: <1495@osiris.UUCP> <2126@haddock.ISC.COM> <1497@osiris.UUCP> <14227@oddjob.UChicago.EDU> <5247@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
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In article <5247@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> david@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (David Robinson) writes:
>Having just recently learned of Sun's reorganizing of its disk layout
>for filesystems in SunOS 4.0, they do allow you to mount both / and
>/usr as read-only filesystems.  

Well I've always thought that *all* file systems should
be read only.   Think of the performance improvements
that would follow, not to mention never having to worry
about 100% full /usr/users partitions.

(;-)