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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:24:16 +0100
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Subject: Re: Can initramfs be mounted read-only?
From: Alan Jenkins <sourcejedi.lkml@googlemail.com>
To: David Wuertele <dave+gmane@wuertele.com>
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On 8/12/09, David Wuertele <dave+gmane@wuertele.com> wrote:
> I've been trying to create a system with a read-only rootfs using initramfs,
> but I'm not having any luck.  I've included "ro" on my command line and when
> I cat /proc/cmdline it reports "ro" like I expect.  But when I type "mount",
> I see this:
>
>   rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)

Changing this could potentially break a lot of systems.  At least
Debian has "ro" as a default boot option, and it uses an initramfs by
default.

> And I can create new files and write to them just fine.  Is it possible to
> mount an initramfs read-only?
>
> The documentation for early userspace and initramfs does not talk about
> read/write permissions.

Have you tried running "mount / -oremount,ro" in an init script?

Regards
Alan