Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 16:16:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 16:16:03 -0500 Received: from NODE1.HOSTING-NETWORK.COM ([66.216.16.1]:56841 "HELO hosting-network.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 16:16:02 -0500 X-Comments: BlackMail headers - Mail to abuse@featureprice.com to report spam. X-Authenticated-Connect: 216.142.75.231 X-Authenticated-Timestamp: 16:20:58(EST) on January 08, 2003 X-HELO-From: epunjabis.com X-Mail-From: X-Sender-IP-Address: 216.142.75.231 Message-ID: <3E1C6CF2.9090308@epunjabis.com> Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 13:24:50 -0500 From: Vishal Verma User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Virtual WORM device References: <200301071841.h07If7QJ002323@darkstar.example.net> In-Reply-To: <200301071841.h07If7QJ002323@darkstar.example.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 664 Lines: 14 > > Another possibility would be to create a meta-device that works like a > cross between the loopback device, and WORM device, I.E. start at the > begining, and allocate sectors sequentially. Whenever a sector would > normally be overwritten, a new one is allocated instead. This way, > you could always access the filesystem as it was at any mount in time. OR you can check-in your entire filesystem into CVS ;) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/