On 3/5/18 10:42 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote: >>> It's a new OS/installer. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, which is their bleeding edge >>> rolling updates release. >> Hrmph. A lot of things go into this behavior, it may not be a kernel change at >> all that has made it show up now... > Yes, it could be that wonderful systemd or something else. I think I'd pursue a parallel track of bugging SUSE about the issue... ;) (I don't think the kernel will ever just downgrade an rw mount request to ro, or skip an ro->rw transition silently... leaving it ro does seem like an init bug, but *shrug* init long ago transitioned into deep magic.) -Eric