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 **Note**: An extension created this way will be linked against specific libraries on your system and will not work on other distributions.
 It also requires the previously mentioned libraries/dependencies at runtime to be installed in your system (the system extension does not carry these libraries).
 
+**Read-Only Filesystem**: If you're not on an immutable distro you may notice that `/usr/` and `/opt/` are read-only.
+this is caused by `systemd-sysext` being enabled, when you are done testing you can disable `systemd-sysext` (`sudo systemctl disable systemd-sysext`)
+
 It is thus no proper method for long term deployment.
 
 ### Packaging