"the system is still left with a read-only rootfs and nothing to tell the rootfs' init to remount / as rw." => why is initrd mounting overlayfs RO, instead of RW.
"so this squashfs removal of etc/fstab for *MAAS* images" => note there are no MAAS-specific squashfs, the squashfs used by MAAS is the same one as used by LXD containers. MAAS images continue to be built untested into the default stream for groovy still. (being fixed).
@smoser @raharper
"the system is still left with a read-only rootfs and nothing to tell the rootfs' init to remount / as rw." => why is initrd mounting overlayfs RO, instead of RW.
"so this squashfs removal of etc/fstab for *MAAS* images" => note there are no MAAS-specific squashfs, the squashfs used by MAAS is the same one as used by LXD containers. MAAS images continue to be built untested into the default stream for groovy still. (being fixed).