[Wylug-help] Readonly option in hdparm

[Julian Church]

Hi Nick

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 08:31:14 -0600, Thomas, Nicholas
<nick.thomas at eldon.co.uk> wrote:

>
> This $500 dongle seems to do what I want (but not at the price I want).
> http://www.logicube.com/products/accessories/desktopwriteprotect.asp
> <http://www.logicube.com/products/accessories/desktopwriteprotect.asp>

It'd be much cheaper to use SCSI than one of those things.

> The suggestion to burn a CDROM with my disk image seems promising, but I
> need the filesystems on my partitions to be XFS.
> Can I get XFS filesystems onto a CD?

I'm not 100% sure about this, but I think on a CD and DVD it has to be an
ISO9660 filesystem; I am sure I haven't seen anything else on CD.  Are you
sure you can't manage without XFS? It's main selling point seems to be
journaling which (as I understand it) is redundant if you have a read-only
file system.

Another idea I had; If your network's up to it, how about using NFS or
Samba to make a read only volume available, instead of having write
protection on a local drive?

cheers

Julian