Thanks for your clarification Colin. Stephen On Wed, 2022-02-16 at 13:16 -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2022, at 12:48 PM, Stephen Snow wrote: > > On Wed, 2022-02-16 at 12:12 -0500, Ben Cotton wrote: > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Silverblue_Kinoite_readonly_sysroot > > > > > > == Summary == > > > > > > This change is about enabling an opt-in ostree feature that re- > > > mounts > > > `/sysroot` as read only to avoid accidental changes. > > > > > > Users and administrators are not expected to directly interact > > > with > > > the content available there and should instead use the interface > > > offered by rpm-ostree, GNOME Software or (soon) Plasma Discover > > > to > > > manage their system. > > > > > I use Silverblue. How does this affect my ability to modify /etc in > > the > > opt-in scenario? > > It doesn't; `/etc` is mounted writable. > > > Does rpm-ostree offer a method to modify /etc in that > > case? What if I want a mutable /var, like I currently have, does > > this > > change under this proposal? > > `/var` does not change either. > > > What is the value of this for the normal Fedora Linux user? > > The basic idea is that `/sysroot` is actually an ostree > implementation detail, and really nothing else should be writing to > it. > > Fedora CoreOS has worked this way for a long time; we just didn't > make the change in ostree by default out of conservatism. > > > See, that's an unwelcome thing IMO. > > I think actually the migration service could inject `rw` into all > bootloader entries actually. > > > I don't know. I think not being able to boot into my previous > > deployments a visible change to my user experience. > > The service adjusting all bootloader entries is the easy fix for > this. > > Or, TL;DR: Don't panic, no power is being removed and it's very > likely that no one will notice. > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure