[Gllug] RAID on RAID

[Rich Walker]

Tethys <tet at createservices.com> writes:

> Rich Walker writes:
>
>>I was going to keep /usr on /. Looking at the access patterns, that
>>seems to make more sense than separating it.
>
> The main reason for keeping them separate is security. You can't have
> a read only /usr if it's on the same filesystem as /, And I'd recommend
> that everyone have a read only /usr...

Tried that in the past. Didn't like it much :-> Although I recently saw
a note somewhere to the effect that apt could be persuaded to
automagically remount -rw before and -ro after usage, which would remove
the main obstacle.

cheers, Rich.

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