Regex2fat: Turn your favorite regex into FAT32

Re:Regex2fat: Turn your favorite regex into FAT32 by kazinator on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @11:21PM (#22885713)

The insane thing is supporting writes on the host side (are they?) which change the contents of the VFAT right under the guest OS. Writes in the other direction are a lot simpler because the guest is in control of the VFAT state.

Come on, any sort of caching scheme will wreak havoc with underhanded updates to the image.

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Re:Regex2fat: Turn your favorite regex into FAT32 by LeoPanthera on Thursday April 16, 2020 @01:40AM (#22886464)

I've used this feature quite a lot and it's important to understand that it is crazy unstable. The fact that it works at all is impressive, but it does explode quite a lot.

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Re:Regex2fat: Turn your favorite regex into FAT32 by rwmj on Thursday April 16, 2020 @07:36AM (#22888364)

We discussed VVFAT at the KVM Forum (2018 IIRC), and as a response I wrote: http://libguestfs.org/nbdkit-floppy-plugin.1.html (It does not support all the crazy write/host filesystem interaction because I'm nowhere near as smart as Johannes Schindelin.)

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