Quoting Olaf Meeuwissen ([email protected]):

> I don't know how long this has been available but had I been aware of
> it, I would have used it way back when I used to mount /usr read-only.
> That's been a while ... maybe 10 years or so ;-)
> 
> Actually, staring at this, I may have done something like that and was
> not quite happy with how it worked (or not) and just stopped mounting
> /usr read-only.  Or maybe I just stopped putting /usr on a file system
> of its own (when I started using LVM).  I honestly cannot remember why
> and what.
> 
> Thanks anyway,

You're very welcome.  For interested parties, there's more here:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/11/msg00212.html

(That's a comprehensive mail on the subject by Anthony Towns.)

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