Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751436AbWCCNdq (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Mar 2006 08:33:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751439AbWCCNdq (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Mar 2006 08:33:46 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:43149 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751436AbWCCNdp (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Mar 2006 08:33:45 -0500 Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 14:33:44 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: roland cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: is there a COW inside the kernel ? In-Reply-To: <043101c63e9c$86e9d710$0200000a@aldipc> Message-ID: References: <043101c63e9c$86e9d710$0200000a@aldipc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 675 Lines: 17 > is there an equivalent of something like > cowloop ( http://www.atconsultancy.nl/cowloop/total.html ) or md based cow > device ( http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/br260/doc/report.pdf ), > i.e. a feature called "Copy On Write Blockdevice" inside the current or the > near-future mainline kernel (besides UserModeLinux Arch)? Not directly block-device-based cow, but unionfs is at least a filesystem-based cow. Jan Engelhardt -- - 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/