Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) <[email protected]> wrote: > Theo de Raadt writes: > > > > No, but Berkeley created /var to get all the writable stuff > > > out of /usr so it could be mounted R/O. > > > > they did not. /var came from Sun. > > Okay, my memory is a bit foggy. But Sun did it for the same reason, > so /usr could be NFS exported R/O to the diskless workstations.
You are incorrect. CSRG never had NFS diskless booting in any of their BSD code. > Is there a technical or security reason why /usr/share/relink > cannot be moved to /var/relink? That should allow for R/O /usr > again. We are not doing to do that.
