Re: file system with no gratuitous writes?

[Steven Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Jan 2, 2011, at 8:11 58PM, Sad Clouds wrote:

> Don't forget to edit daily/weekly/monthly config files under /etc and
> disable anything that writes to filesystem.
> 

That's the easy part -- I'll mount the root read-only, with things like /etc, 
/dev, and /var as mfs volumes.  (I've been running that way for years.)

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb