Hi Arty, Do you actually have a bootable Linux/390 system right now with those mount points on separate minidisks? I was going to do that, but started looking at ALL of the stuff that is required at boot time as an extension of the booted disk (/) and it turned out to be more trouble than it was worth. I basically have /usr in a R/O shared directory and everything else in a R/W minidisk (single minidisk) unique by machine. You could easily build your VDISK copy at boot time from a single saved image, and link R/O to /usr for everything else.
By the way, where is /proc on your list - you definitely need that R/W. Michael Coffin, VM Systems Programmer Internal Revenue Service - Room�6527 1111 Constitution Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C.� 20224 Voice: (202)�927-4188�� FAX:� (202) 622-6726 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----Original Message----- From: Arty Ecock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 3:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: R/O Linux guest? Hi, I need to set up a Linux/390 guest with read-only file systems (and minidisks). Has anyone done anything like this? I'd want to put the portions of the file systems that MUST be read-write on a V-disk. My filesystems are all on separate minidisks: / /home /usr /opt /tmp /var swap I think I can make /usr, and /home read-only rather easily. The same with /opt. For the others, I'd have to disect them to locate the files that must be read-write and set up symlinks for them. Am I on the right track? Cheers, Arty
