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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

/etc is writable, so no reboots are required. That said, /etc is treated in a special way and each deployment will have its own /etc, based on the previous one.

So if you make changes to /etc then revert to a previous deployment, your changes will be reverted as well. But if you make changes and upgrade (or do whatever to create a new deployment), your changes will bu preserved.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

That's really helpful to understand the caveats, thank you.