Re: [Devil-linux-develop] suggestions for 0.5 Beta CD layout

[Martin M. <mm...@si...>]

Hi,

On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 03:25:47AM +0200, Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I suggest the following layout for the new Devil-Linux 0.5 Beta:
>  / .... CD-Rom directly mounted as root so nobody can change anything *)
>  /dev/shm  .... virtual memory file system (max. size limited!) [see below]
>  /etc -> /dev/shm
>  /tmp -> /dev/shm/var/tmp
>  /var -> /dev/shm/var
> 
> optional we can mount the follwing:
>  /var/mount   .... /dev/hdx, /dev/sdx  (do we have to care about partitioning? :)
> This would be useful for:
>  * squid
>  * sendmail/qmail/postfix/exim
>  * amavis
>  * you name it :-)
> 
> *) yes I'm paranoid :-)

Well, I'd oppose a mounted CD, since I have quite bad experiences with
long running systems and CD-Rs / CD-RWs. I run about 15 firewalls from
CD, which I created myself and they usually fail to work after 1-2
years, since the CD gets unreadable sectors, because of the constant
heat in the cdrom drive. So think it quite advisable to be able to
take the CD out while the system is running to replace it with working
one.

The other point is, in the whole time I run these firewalls, I never
got an attack on the firewall itself, just on the systems behind it.

bye
   MM

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