On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 02:18:37PM -0600, Douglas McClendon wrote: > The overlay device in this situation is a read-write tmpfile in tmpfs, > looped to be available as the dm-snapshot 'snapshot/overlay device'. Ah - well if your base device is already read-only, then there is no corruption and you should be able to edit the bit of the disk image that says 'this image is invalid' and recover it read-only or extend it. Alasdair -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel