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Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 09/10] lighttpd: make /www diretory writable in read-only rootfs
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On 07/29/2013 11:56 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 29 July 2013 03:33,  <Qi.Chen@windriver.com> wrote:
>> +    echo "/www /var/volatile/www" > ${D}${sysconfdir}/default/readonly/lighttpd
> /www is the default lighttpd document root, where the web sites are
> stored, so putting them in a tmpfs would be very wrong indeed.
>
> Why does lightttp need write access?  If it's putting logs in there
Yes. Exactly the log issue.

After some thinking, I think I'll just drop this patch.
Because even if I move the log location to /var/log/xxx, it will not 
make the situation any better, as the /www directory is still not writable.
So I think, at this point, we should not do too much.
I'll assume that if the user is using a read-only rootfs and his system 
is holding a website, maybe he'll just mount some writable media to /www.

Best Regards,
Chen Qi

> then they should be in /var/log, PIDs in /run and so on.
>
> Ross
>
>