Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751156AbWCCOTv (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Mar 2006 09:19:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751180AbWCCOTv (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Mar 2006 09:19:51 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:6835 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751156AbWCCOTv (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Mar 2006 09:19:51 -0500 Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 14:19:47 +0000 From: Alasdair G Kergon To: roland Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: is there a COW inside the kernel ? Message-ID: <20060303141947.GC25334@agk.surrey.redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Alasdair G Kergon , roland , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <043101c63e9c$86e9d710$0200000a@aldipc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <043101c63e9c$86e9d710$0200000a@aldipc> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 725 Lines: 19 On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 09:29:02AM +0100, roland wrote: > 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)? device-mapper snapshots? Documentation/device-mapper/snapshot.txt Alasdair -- agk@redhat.com - 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/