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Btrfs Snapshots should be readonly #332

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@ygerlach

Describe the bug
All btrfs snapshots created by timeshift are writeable. I believe they should be read-only by default (and maybe have a button to make them writeable). So you cant accidentally mess up your only way back out of a broken system.

To Reproduce

  1. Create a btrfs snapshot
  2. Browse the snapshot
  3. try to create or modify a file

Expected behavior
btrfs subvolume snapshot -r ... should be used to create a read-only snapshot and avoid users messing up their backup.
A Option could be provided to toggle the snapshot between read/write and read-only. A Option to set the default value for new snapshots might also be useful (should be read-only by default).

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