You might want to consider a setup similar to http://m0n0.ch/wall/ where it loads off of a cd or whatever, into a ramdisc. This would deal with the latency and life of the cd drive issues.
Dan On 7/1/05, Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any kind of storage media that can be set as read-only, and > only reset to read and write by physical access? > > I'm thinking about something like the (seemingly ancient) 3.5" > floppy disks that had that little "switch" you could use to set the > disk to read only. > > Are there any hard drives that have a similar kind of feature? > > I'm thinking that this would be nice for a firewall machine: if the > machine was compromised, it still couldn't be modified (i.e., > volumes mounted read only can always be remounted read-write if the > machine is root compromised). > > I'm thinking that I could burn a CD-R (and re-burn it whenever > there's a configuration change), but it seems like the system might > have a lot of latency and the CD-ROM drive might prematurely fail. > > Any thoughts? > > Thanks, > Matt > > -- > Matt Garman > email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email
