Newsgroups:  gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user
Date:        Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:34:27 +0200

> - 1st, does grml support read-only root fs? If not please put it into
> todo list.

That's pretty useless. Use the live-cd if you don't want to touch files on your harddisk.

> Since it is a Live distro, supporting read-only root fs should be
> trivial, but I need it badly. I have reiserfs for my root fs, but still
> that can't sustain the frequent power failure that I'm having.

reiserfs, bad choice for your root-fs…

> - 2nd, an OT question. Does Debian or grml support some kind of
> integrity test? My current situation is that after so many damn power
> failures, my lovely Debian is in an unstable stage, commands that used
> to work are now failing mystically. Re-install the packages that contain
> those tools won't help. I'm now forced to do a reinstallation after
> having my ever-upgrading-and-customizing Debian for so many years... I
> wish Debian or grml has the integrity testing capability that rpm has,
> ie. to test whether the libs/executables that reside on the disk are
> still the same as in the package. This might help for situations like
> what I'm experiencing, or HD failure, and potential compromised
> systems...

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Michael Prokop