> On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>
> >*** Read-only filesystems ***
> >[...]
> >devfs, the root filesystem can be read-only. The current /dev could be
> >trouble for Linux embedded in ROM.
>
> You need to mount `/dev' rw _only_ in order to change the permission of
> the devices and _I_ don' t change that permission a lot of frequenty
> (maybe you will need also a /etcfs to change conf files while the root
> filesystem is mounted read-only?)...
>
What? You only log in as root?
Daniel Taylor