On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 19:51, Chema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Making /usr read-only is not for that kind of security. It will keep your > data safe from corruption (soft one, anyway: a disk crash will take > anything with it ;-). Besides, you can get a better performance formating > it with ext2, since you'll not need journaling.
Why would you get better performance? If you mount noatime then there's no writes to a file system that is accessed in a read-only fashion and there should not be any performance issue. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
