> Ben Mord said:
>
> >Ah. In that case, you can use something considerably less powerful than
> >VMWare. All you need is a machine configured to boot from CD-ROM and use
> >a RAM disk for scratch space. Numerous Linux distros are available that
> >let you boot a stateless but functional system from CD-ROM.
>
> But RAM is expensive, and the directory structures of many systems (e.g.
> Windows) are not sufficiently organized and standardized to make this
> combination of bootable CDs and RAM drives practical. Even if you are
> fortunate enough to be using Linux (or another FHS-compliant *nix), you
> still can't fit a lot on a CD. Its not unusual today to have gigabytes of
> static multimedia content on the web server. This particular problem can be
> alleviated somewhat by using DVDs, but this is a temporary solution at best
> which will become outdated quickly as our data requirements grow and hard
> drives become cheaper.
So, just write-protect the hard disk for partitions that are static.
I seem to recall an article on this (early 80's, Byte magazine, perhaps?)
for BBS systems or for testing unknown (perhaps trojan horse) software.
- George
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