Article 4Y82E Grub2 boot from an ISO image versus fsprotect, which is more secure?

Grub2 boot from an ISO image versus fsprotect, which is more secure?

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Either of the following two options revert back to a clean initial state in every reboot. Which is the most secure against tampering by remote-controlled malware trying to permanently modify the filing system?

grub2 boot from an ISO image

fsprotect

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fsprotect uses AUFS to combine two filesystems in one. AUFS does exactly that: It merges two existing filesystems in one and distributes changes among them. For each protected filesystem, fsprotect combines the existing filesystem with a tmpfs, forcing all changes to be written to the tmpfs. This means that nothing is ever written to the disks and all changes are stored in the tmpfs. tmpfs is a memory based filesystem, similar to ramdisk but using VM instead of real memory, allowing its contents to be swapped out.
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fsprotect uses an initramfs script that runs very early in the boot process, after the root filesystem is mounted but before it is moved to /. It then exchanges the existing filesystem with an aufs and lets the boot procedure continue.
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