[Wowfunhappy]

> I like the idea of a ro partition for system level OS files, personally, but without user level access somehow - it's not something to be looked forward to.

Apple is clearly stating that the user will have access, so I'm not concerned on that front.

What bothers me is the "will revert to read-only after a reboot" part, which seems unnecessarily punitive. It's like Apple is saying "We're going to let you do this thing, but we don't like it, so we're going to make you redo it every single time to remind you of our disdain."

Elsewhere in this thread, Pwinnski said he likes having an extra, persistent safety check. I think that's great. But, an extra command line flag to make the setting persistent really shouldn't be too much to ask for.

If my launchd idea works in practice, this is all moot, and I retract all my complaints. I'm just nervous.

[saagarjha]

How often do you need to touch the system partition in the first place? Is this something you need to do every boot?