[H-GEN] Need help during install, or just after ;)
Martin Pool
mbp at meesha.humbug.org.au
Thu Jun 11 06:53:51 EDT 1998
>/ Should not be readonly as many /etc files (passwd for example) need to
>be written to.
Well, yes and no. A machine set up as a web server with only
a couple of interactive logins -- and there must be at least
thousands of them in the world -- can get by pretty happily
with / read-only. Of course, you need to remount it to
change stuff, but on a very-stable production machine that
might be OK. It's near the end of the security-vs-convenience
spectrum.
I guess passwd really ought to be in /var, but it's about
twenty years too late to say that. :-/
>I don't like that due to the speed issues associated with crossing a
>symlink everytime u go to /tmp (assuming it is the link to /var/tmp).
>Zen is doing this right now as an interim measure however.
Naturally there is some loss, but symlinks are quite fast on
some unices: the kernel caches the link and it's target, and so
on. I don't know about recent versions of Linux.
--
Martin
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