Re: devfs

Kevin Lentin (kevinl@cs.monash.edu.au)
Fri, 9 Jan 1998 00:08:18 +1100

On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 04:12:22PM +0800, Michael O'Reilly wrote:
> > *** Read-only filesystems ***
> > [ .. ] The Linux root filesystem can not be read-only because the
> > normal /dev must be read-write to allow tty ownership changes.
>
> No to mention utmp, wtmp, any sort of logging, etc. Fact #1. A read

That's the whole point of /var. var is for variable. In an ideal situation,
with a proper setup, root and /usr should be able to be read-only and other
things go in /var.

eg, /usr/adm and /usr/spool SHOULD be /var/adm and /var/spool and most
modern systems are moving towards /var/log for log files.

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