[Feature/Question] Specifying Offset with In-place Extraction

[bearrito]

Is it possible (or desirable) to specify in-place extraction with an offset? Today in our A/B setup we do something equivalent to

xz -d -c $IMAGE_PATH | sudo dd skip=$SKIP_BLOCKS of=$PARTITION status=progress

Where skip blocks equates to the size of the MBR.

[charles-dyfis-net]

Possible, surely, if you create and target a loopback device with an offset configured.

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[bearrito]

@charles-dyfis-net Hmm, I'm not familiar with that approach. But it sounds like there is some known technique I can investigate that's outside of desync. Thanks for the lead.