Cannot open writeable file or device node, nor read a symlink from a read only filesystem

Issue

• Can't create folder/document in writeable directory when referenced via symlink
• Unexpected shell behaviour with a read only filesystem
• Cannot write to device nodes on a read only filesystem
• Bind mount of files on read only filesystem does not work
• Symbolic links on a read only NFS mount cannot be opened
• Error: Read-only file system
• EROFS when opening a file on a RO filesystem with O_CREAT|O_RDONLY
• This particularly affects:
  • regular files
  • symlinks
  • device nodes
  • bind mounts