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podman/docs/source/markdown/options/read-only-tmpfs.md
Jan Kaluza 7612af4c0e Rewrite the Quadlet documentation
This commit does the following:

- Splits the podman-systemd.unit.5.md into multiple files - one for each quadlet file type.
- Adds the podman-quadlet-basic-usage.7.md for quadlet examples.
- Majority of the text in the new files is copied from the podman-systemd.unit.5.md
- Adds support for very simple condditional in the markdown_preprocess.
- Uses new logic in markdown_preprocess in options/*.md to use a single .md file for both
  podman subcommands man-pages and quadlet man-pages. This deduplicates the Quadlet man-pages a lot.
- Adds new `@@option quadlet:source.md`` preprocess command to import such .md files from options directory.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com>
2026-05-04 10:53:36 +02:00

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####> This option file is used in: ####> podman podman-container.unit.5.md.in, create, run ####> If file is edited, make sure the changes ####> are applicable to all of those. << if is_quadlet >>

ReadOnlyTmpfs=true|false

<< else >>

--read-only-tmpfs

<< endif >>

When running --read-only containers, mount a read-write tmpfs on /dev, /dev/shm, /run, /tmp, and /var/tmp. The default is true.

--read-only --read-only-tmpfs / /run, /tmp, /var/tmp
true true r/o r/w
true false r/o r/o
false false r/w r/w
false true r/w r/w

When << 'ReadOnly=true' if is_quadlet else '--read-only=true' >> and << 'ReadOnlyTmpfs=true' if is_quadlet else '--read-only-tmpfs=true' >> additional tmpfs are mounted on the /tmp, /run, and /var/tmp directories.

When << 'ReadOnly=true' if is_quadlet else '--read-only=true' >> and << 'ReadOnlyTmpfs=false' if is_quadlet else '--read-only-tmpfs=false' >> /dev and /dev/shm are marked Read/Only and no tmpfs are mounted on /tmp, /run and /var/tmp. The directories are exposed from the underlying image, meaning they are read-only by default. This makes the container totally read-only. No writable directories exist within the container. In this mode writable directories need to be added via external volumes or mounts.

By default, when << 'ReadOnly=false' if is_quadlet else '--read-only=false' >> , the /dev and /dev/shm are read/write, and the /tmp, /run, and /var/tmp are read/write directories from the container image.