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The second part in the series deals with that by mounting it read-only from initrd.

If it is fast enough, and cheap enough, people would very happily reroll specific subsets of decisions until happy, and then lock that down. And specify in more details the corner cases that it doesn't get just how you want it.

People metaphorically do that all the time when designing rooms, in the form of endless browsing of magazines or Tik Tok or similar to find something they like instead of starting from first principles and designing exactly what they want, because usually they don't know exactly what they want.

A lot of the time we'd be happier with a spec at the end of the process than at the beginning. A spec that ensures the current understanding of what is intentional vs. what is an accident we haven't addressed yet is nailed down would be valuable. Locking it all down at the start, on the other hand, is often impossible and/or inadvisable.