Lennart Poettering on Nostr: … which operates on the block layer, and can initialize the partition from either a ...
… which operates on the block layer, and can initialize the partition from either a regular file (which then would typically contain a pre-made fs image), or another block device (in order to maybe replicate an existing partition onto a new disk, in a byte exact fashion).
With v257 CopyBlocks= gained one new feature: in addition to regular files and block devices you can now specify character devices as source to copy from too.
You wonder what that might be good for?
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