[systemd-devel] early mounts in systemd

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Friday, April 30, 2021 11:39 AM -0400 Rick Winscot 
<rick.winscot at gmail.com> wrote:

> Early in the project it was decided to make the rootfs read-only... in an
> effort to improve durability in environments where power fluctuations
> might cause problems on the eMMC. At the same time, making logging (e.g.
> /var) persistent for debugging was added to requirements. Persistent
> storage would be achieved by mounting /var to a separate partition that is
> read-write.

Does /etc need to be read-only? On my last server I decided to make /usr 
read-only but root is writable and /var is part of that. I put /home on its 
own partition.