diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index e9605031..3767c18b 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -11,6 +11,13 @@ The only place I know that this was used was Gentoo Baselayout 1.x, so
 it shouldn't affect anyone since baselayout-1 has been dead for a few
 years.
 
+Since all supported Linux kernel versions now make efivarfs immutable
+and all of the tools that access efivarfs are aware of this, we no
+longer mount efivarfs read-only. See the following github issue for more
+information:
+
+https://github.com/openrc/openrc/issues/238
+
 ## OpenRC 0.37
 
 start-stop-daemon now supports logging stdout and stderr of daemons to
diff --git a/init.d/sysfs.in b/init.d/sysfs.in
index f0d02e5c..89707120 100644
--- a/init.d/sysfs.in
+++ b/init.d/sysfs.in
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ mount_misc()
 	if [ -d /sys/firmware/efi/efivars ] &&
 		! mountinfo -q /sys/firmware/efi/efivars; then
 		ebegin "Mounting efivarfs filesystem"
-		mount -n -t efivarfs -o ro \
+		mount -n -t efivarfs -o ${sysfs_opts} \
 			efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars 2> /dev/null
 		eend 0
 	fi