Re: tightest fstab

[Woodchuck <djv@bedford.net>]

On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Simon Lok wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have been digging around for the "tightest" (in
> the sense of maximum restrictions) fstab
> that one can possible have in an obsd installation.
>  From my digging, it seemed that a lot of people think
> that the /tmp partition as mfs was the way to go... I think
> that Solaris does something like that by default.  What
> do people think about this?  Too tight?
>
> /dev/wd0a / ffs rw,softdep,noatime 1 1
> /dev/wd0b none swap sw 0 0
> /dev/wd0d /usr ffs rw,softdep,noatime,nodev 1 2
> /dev/wd0e /var ffs rw,softdep,noatime,noexec,nodev,nosuid 1 2
> swap /tmp mfs rw,-s=65536,noatime,async,nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
> /dev/sd0g /home ffs rw,softdep,noatime,nodev,nosuid 1 2

"noatime" discards atime information, so that would seem less "tight"
than not having it.  In conjunction with softdep, I wonder if
"noatime" is a significant win. Anyone?  It depends on usage patterns,
of course.

Dave
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