Unix on CD?

[Dan Ts'o]

In article <2177 at ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> greg at ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Greg Noel) writes:
>In article <8786 at sol.ARPA> ken at cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) writes:
>>Hmm. Unix system binaries don't change that often. What if most of
>>/bin, /usr, /lib were put on a CD? ....
>>Has this been done already? Or planned? Or too impractical yet/ever?
>
>This was discussed a couple of months ago, in the context of various
>plans for read-only file systems.

	We're planning to investigate WORM drives for archiving data. Can
someone summarize the state of UNIX software for WORMs ?
	Thanks.

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