Re: [dm-devel] On allowing remounting the partition containing dm-mapped boot disk as read-write

2023-02-16 Thread Ganapathi Kamath
ilesystem. These block boundary calculations need to be perfect, in order to present a filesystem as perfect as the original. The job of the antiventoy dm-map is to just substitute the vdisk file-blocks with zero-blocks, in order to avoid the contention that prevents mount. Some testing will

Re: [dm-devel] On allowing remounting the partition containing dm-mapped boot disk as read-write

2023-02-16 Thread Ganapathi Kamath
reat mind to this if at least on the backburner. Sorry if too verbose. I value your time. Thanks -Gana On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 3:33 AM Ganapathi Kamath wrote: >> >> I am just an ordinary user of Linux and ventoy . >> Q) >> https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/2234 >

[dm-devel] On allowing remounting the partition containing dm-mapped boot disk as read-write

2023-02-15 Thread Ganapathi Kamath
I am just an ordinary user of Linux and Ventoy. Q) https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/2234 Is what I have suggested here, meaningful? Is there contra-indications to not do it or an alternative suggestions? thoughts? Ventoy a GPL2, grub2 environment to native boot iso-s and vdisks. Ventoy

[dm-devel] On allowing remounting the partition containing dm-mapped boot disk as read-write

2023-02-15 Thread Ganapathi Kamath
I am just an ordinary user of Linux and ventoy . Q) https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/2234 Is what I have suggested here, meaningful? Is there contra-indications to not do it or an alternative suggestions? thoughts? Ventoy, a GPL software, uses a small kernel patch to achieve a small