On Tuesday 18 June 2002 22:21, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: > > Can you mount /usr as ro and /usr/share (or as far down the /usr/share > > path you list as you feel necessary) as rw? > > You must be able to mount /usr ro. Period. /usr/share is for system > independent _non-volatile_ data. /var is for volatile data. You may even > think about /var/share - but mostly volatile data is system dependent so > it makes no sense. > > -andrej
I agree that it wouldn't make sense to do, but if the guy wants to do it, we may as well treat it as an interesting puzzle to solve. Sometimes weird ideas turn into great ones. (And most are red herrings at best, but only time will tell.)
