max / alloy

Record the ruling that alloy disk does not write ISOs Max, 2026-08-05: the verb manages disks and partitions, not ISOs. That reversed an earlier ruling the same day requiring it to write install drives, so the module doc names the decision rather than leaving it as an inference from the safety argument that follows it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: Max Johnson <me@maxj.phd> · 2026-08-05 17:51 UTC

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M crates/alloy/src/disk.rs +6 -1

			@@ -7,7 +7,12 @@
7	7		//!
8	8		//! # What this verb is not
9	9		//!
10		-	//! It does not write installer media. `alloy image` already does, and the
	10	+	//! It does not write installer media. Max, 2026-08-05: `alloy disk` manages
	11	+	//! disks and partitions, not ISOs. That ruling reversed an earlier one the same
	12	+	//! day requiring this verb to write install drives, so it is recorded here
	13	+	//! rather than left as an inference from the reasoning below.
	14	+	//!
	15	+	//! `alloy image` already does it, and the
11	16		//! constraint it works under (docs/CONSOLE.md, "It does not write the disk")
12	17		//! applies with more force here: `build/build-image.sh --write` refuses
13	18		//! partitions, refuses anything mounted, and verifies with `cmp` against a