Marco d'Itri writes ("Re: support for merged /usr in Debian"):
> On Jan 02, Joerg Jaspert <jo...@debian.org> wrote:
> > No, /etc can be nicely ro. That is, /, /usr, /etc, ... can be. The log
> > storage and the user homes, as well as a tmp filesystem rw, rest ro.
> > Works nicely, I have 4 of such systems running.
>
> Just to be clear: on a merged /usr system nothing prevents you from
> having /home and /var on standalone file systems and keeping the root
> file system (eventually with /usr on it) read only.
/etc contains files which are modified during normal operation.
Ian.
