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by sayhello 5388 days ago
Thanks for your thoughts, PabloOsinaga.

I am just spitting out ideas without deep thought but a discussion might prove fruitful.

It could come down to certain types of data, some to be ignored, some to be careful of (like data or code), others to blindly overwrite (critical security updates).

The point would be treat the data as "dumb", but to keep in mind that some data are "dumber" than others.

Perhaps if we had our own disk image format, we could mark certain types of data to be ignored for instance.

Our VM would know what to mark as ignored for say POSIX systems and that aspect could be configurable.