dissect: ext4 and loopback files are unimpressed by read-only access
Even if we set up a loopback device read-only and mount it read-only this means nothing, ext4 will still write through to the backing storage file. Yes, I lost 6h debugging time on this. Apparently, we have to specify "norecovery" when mounting such file systems, to force them into truly read-only mode. Let's do so.
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