Partitioning for read-only and shared filesystems

[pegu]

I'm looking for documentation or others experience with paritioning and configuration of read-only and shared filesystems. What I would like to do is:

1) I would like to install Gentoo to a compact flash card. However, I would like to keep as much as possible read-only. The rest I would put in a RAM disk. But what is the rest and is Gentoo designed with this in mind? Obviously, /tmp and /var would be mounted on the RAM disk, but what else?

2) I have a diskless mini-itx client machine. Now I would like to install a second machine (probably more, I love them!). I would like to share as much as possible between these two (or more) clients. It would be best to mount these read-only and do updates and emerge on the server. But some filesystem have to belong exclusively to each machine. Again, /tmp and /var as well as /etc would reside on separate partitions, but is that it?


TIA
Petter
BTW, here's the diskless mini-itx box, no fan, no disk, no moving parts, totally quiet...
[url][http://www.gustad.com/petter/itx-desktop.jpg/url]

[andjurka]

'lo
i think you just need to use ramFS (but it's old now) try with devfs or udev....
this can maybe help you:
http://webpages.charter.net/decibelshelp/LinuxHelp_UDEVPrimer.html
bye

[pegu]