Subject: Re: r/o filesystem restrictions for firewall?
To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Jon Lindgren <jlindgren@slk.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/24/2000 06:45:32
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Greywolf wrote:

[snip]

> Idea:
> 
> Mount it as your root disk.
> Tar up /dev.
> mount /dev as a mfs.
> extract from the tarred-up /dev.
> 
> Somehow.

I thought about that for a while... an MFS which I could tune to exactly
the size needed to store the mutable sections of the fs... but again, that
allows local write access, which is something I'm trying to avoid due to
my overactive paranoia.

-Jon
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