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From: dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Unix on CD?
Message-ID: <155@rna.UUCP>
Date: 23 Apr 88 22:57:20 GMT
References: <8786@sol.ARPA> <10986@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <2177@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o)
Organization: Rockefeller University Neurobiology
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In article <2177@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> greg@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Greg Noel) writes:
>In article <8786@sol.ARPA> ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) writes:
>>Hmm. Unix system binaries don't change that often. What if most of
>>/bin, /usr, /lib were put on a CD? ....
>>Has this been done already? Or planned? Or too impractical yet/ever?
>
>This was discussed a couple of months ago, in the context of various
>plans for read-only file systems.

	We're planning to investigate WORM drives for archiving data. Can
someone summarize the state of UNIX software for WORMs ?
	Thanks.

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