Subject: Read-only root filesystem
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikael_Nystr=F6m?= <micke@samladtrupp.se>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/20/2007 11:30:12
Hi.

I have a question about how to use a read only root filesystem. I'm  
currently working on a setup that is going to use a read-only root  
filesystem and kern.securelevel set to 2. I tried booting once with  
this setup and realized that I need to mount everything before I set  
securelevel to 2 (not in rc.conf in other words).

I have other partitions that are mounted read-write so every file  
that needs to be updated regulary resides on these partitions  
(actually softlinks for motd/resolv.conf etc), but how about /dev?  
Don't I need it to be read-write? I guess it's not so smart to make  
it a separate partition since it will probably break stuff while  
booting ...

Is there a good document to read about necessary steps for a read  
only root filesystem?

Regards

Micke