[ILUG] Archive WORM ( write once ) Filesystem

[Rory Browne]

2009/7/2 Gerry Boland <gerboland at gmail.com>:
> Hi
> I've come across mini_fo[1] for embedded devices. It overlays a r/w
> filesystem
> over a r/o one. You might be able to script the system to commit changed
> files
> (and not the deleted) from the mini_fo storage to the r/o partition somehow.
> I
> think it would be an even more ugly hack
> than your idea tho, and there would
> be a risk of filename collisions.

That may be useful for something else I'm planning but I think for
this particular project I think it might be cause more problems than
it solved.

> chattr no good, no?
My problem with chattr was that I would have to apply it to each
individual file. I realised this evening coming down on the Train to
Galway , that i could do that with inotify.... Ill see where that
brings me.