Explore Btrfs images on MacOS
While troubleshooting a malfunctioning radar system, I wanted to inspect its firmware for diagnostic tools (couldn’t find any). The firmware was stored in a Btrfs image, which isn’t straightforward to handle on macOS without spending some quality time with FUSE.
To “extract” its contents, I instead used a Docker container with the necessary tools, because it’s quite easy to do on plain linux. Here’s how.
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