On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:30:12AM +0200, Mikael Nyström wrote:

> 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?

Modern answer:

Remove all device nodes from it. /sbin/init will create a MFS and build
the device nodes when you boot.

Ancient answer:

http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/papers/#souvatzis
http://theory.cs.uni-bonn.de/~ignatios/papers/eurobsdcon2002.sharedroot.ps

	-is