[Soekris] Debian Squeeze on Soekris - The EASY Way

[The Fungi]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 09:24:39AM -0700, David Burgess wrote:
> True only if wear levelling is in place. To my knowledge, most
> consumer-marketed CF don't use this, so death will come much
> sooner if you try that.

And wear on the flash isn't the only good reason for read-only
filesystems on a non-redundantly-powered, headless device intended
to be used as a fast-booting network appliance:

    * Checking root file system...
   fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
   /dev/sda1 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
   /dev/da1:
   Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found.
   
   /dev/sda1: UNEXPECTED INCOSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
           (i.e., without -a or -p options)
   fsck fied with exit status 4 [fail]
   
    * An automatic file system check (fsck) of the root filesystem failed.
   A manual fsck must be performed, then the system restarted.
   The fsck should be performed in maintenance mode with the
   root filesystem mounted in read-only mode.
    * The root filesystem is currently mounted in read-only mode.
   A maintenance shell will now be started.
   After performing system maintenance, press CONTROL-D
   to terminate the maintenance shell and restart the system.
   Give root password for maintenance
   (or type Control-D to continue): _

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