From: David Wuertele <dave+gmane@wuertele.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can initramfs be mounted read-only?
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:10:21 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20090812T220624-312@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9b2b86520908121424qff7443fn84d07fb8dff7c863@mail.gmail.com>
Alan Jenkins <sourcejedi.lkml <at> googlemail.com> writes:
>> I've been trying to create a system with a read-only rootfs using initramfs,
>
> 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.
I don't want to change it for everybody, just my own system. Since I'm not
using Debian, or any other distribution, I can handle the consequences.
>> Is it possible to
>> mount an initramfs read-only?
>
> Have you tried running "mount / -oremount,ro" in an init script?
Yes, and it works (the rootfs appears read-only after doing this).
I was hoping to get it to be read-only before init gets run.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-12 22:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-12 19:47 David Wuertele
2009-08-12 21:24 ` Alan Jenkins
2009-08-12 22:10 ` David Wuertele [this message]
2009-08-12 23:05 ` Christoph Lameter
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