On Thursday 17 May 2001 20:27, you wrote:
> On the Linux-Kiosk mailing list, we have been discussing the
> robustness problems associated with ext2 on unattended machines, and
> one poster has reported great success using the SGI XFS.
>
> My only problem with this choice is having based my eyes-free
> internet appliance on Mandrake; I expect the SGI 2.4 kernel could be
> patched to match the Mandrake RPMs, but I'd rather not re-invent the
> wheel.
>
> Has anyone else has faced this situation before? Is there already be
> an XFS-aware Mandrake-patched 2.4 RPM available somewhere?
would making / read-only not solve that?
I assume $HOME would be external(nfs), user owned(floppy or flash-card) or
ramdisk