On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 12:24:13PM -0500, Kris Van Hees wrote: > I would *love* to see a CMSFS that can support things like device files so > we can finally put /dev somewhere other than the root filesystem, so / can > truly be made RO. I worked on that using initrd, but cmsfs would be so > much nicer (as long as it is efficient). Then again, if devfs keeps going > the way it is, the need for a writable /dev may finally disappear! I do > fear though that it won't go all the way :(
/dev doesn't prevent / from being read-only. devfs sidesteps this problem entirely, and with a normal /dev, device nodes are generally static. If you consider it to be useful, it is not too complex to run Linux with a read-only root filesystem. -- - mdz
