Simon Hobson <linux@???> writes:
> Rainer Weikusat <rainerweikusat@???> wrote:
>
>> There are really only two options:
>>
>> 1. Don't mount or mount r/o and require user interfaction prior to
>> working with these variables.
>>
>> 2. Mount r/w and expect people messing around with the fs as superuser
>> to know what they're doing.
>
> Or the third option - mount r/o and remount r/w when needed.

As I wrote in the original text, that's a extremely bad idea because
this means it may suddenly be affected by an already running command
never supposed to work with it.