Re: Import duplicate VG from a read-only device

Stuart D Gathman <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Nov 2024 13:25:16 -0500 (EST)

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On Mon, 18 Nov 2024, Gionatan Danti wrote:

> Sure, I completely agree with both.
> I was just curious to know if I was missing something obvious.

I would use device mapper to create a writable overlay block device
of the readonly block device (like Live media does) and rename that to
import.  No monkeying about with namespaces.