Wouldn't some of the tricks used by Knoppix (and Ubuntu, DSL, et al) to handle a read-only root volume work? Granted, you don't want all of the symlinks in a RAM-based F/S, but something of the like should be workable.
The problem, of course, is the patching of that image... Isn't GPFS or something of that ilk more reasonable? So that you can have a small local image of changes to the shared (r/o) space? Or am I mis-remembering? -- John R. Campbell Speaker to Machines souperb at gmail dot com MacOS X proved it was easier to make Unix user-friendly than to fix Windows ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
