> I would be quite surprised if some recoverable metadata bit flip or something caused the system to irrecoverably fail to boot just because the readonly flag a

> I would be quite surprised if some recoverable metadata bit flip or something caused the system to irrecoverably fail to boot just because the readonly flag also prevented fsck from fixing errors. This is exactly what happens maintaining bootloaders. As time goes on, the amount of configuration to get ext4 to reliably read a possibly dirty filesystem without modifying it has skyrocketed to the point where I started putting /boot on ext2 again.