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From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: roland <for_spam@gmx.de>
Cc: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@marasystems.com>,
	Shao-Lin Joseph Chung <sc57@cs.waikato.ac.nz>,
	UML User list <user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	UML Devel list <user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [uml-user] Re: [uml-devel] How to copy COW files to another machine across the network?
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 19:04:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200312060004.hB604pAv008208@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 Nov 2003 22:22:34 +0100." <05a201c3b788$12caed30$2000000a@schlepptopp>

for_spam@gmx.de said:
> why was that relocateability being made difficult artificially by
> putting  that "features" into COW? is this "problem" going to be
> adressed? 

To prevent people from mangling filesystems by providing the wrong backing
file to UML.

> is this "problem" going to be adressed?

It's not a problem.

If you really move a backing file, there is a perfectly good way of telling
UML to update the COW file.

				Jeff



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-06  0:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <5.1.0.14.2.20031127102518.02675b90@mail.inboxprotection.com>
2003-11-27 21:06 ` [uml-devel] uml 2.6.0-test9 crash roland
2003-11-27 21:33   ` [uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] " Sven 'Darkman' Michels
2003-11-27 21:54     ` roland
2003-11-27 23:50     ` Henrik Nordstrom
2003-11-28  1:18       ` [uml-devel] bug in COW? - " roland
2003-11-28  1:28         ` [uml-devel] " Erik Walthinsen
2003-11-28  2:11           ` [uml-devel] How to copy COW files to another machine across the network? Shao-Lin Joseph Chung
2003-11-28  8:49             ` Henrik Nordstrom
2003-11-30 21:22               ` roland
2003-11-30 21:37                 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2003-11-30 23:31                   ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-12-01  9:12                     ` roland
2003-12-06  0:04                 ` Jeff Dike [this message]
2003-12-06  0:05               ` [uml-user] " Jeff Dike
2003-11-28  9:13             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-11-29  9:24               ` Richard Potter
2003-12-06  0:05           ` [uml-devel] Re: bug in COW? - Re: [uml-user] uml 2.6.0-test9 crash Jeff Dike
2003-11-28  8:39         ` Henrik Nordstrom
2003-11-28 20:42           ` roland
2003-11-28 21:35             ` Henrik Nordstrom
2003-11-30  2:29               ` roland
2003-11-30  7:47                 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2003-11-30  8:23                 ` Lynn Kerby
2003-11-30 11:36                   ` roland
2003-12-06  0:05                     ` Jeff Dike
2003-12-06  9:41                       ` Henrik Nordstrom
2003-12-06 18:18                         ` Jeff Dike
2003-12-06 23:32                           ` Henrik Nordstrom
2003-12-08  1:20                             ` roland
2003-12-08 19:21                               ` Jeff Dike
2003-12-07 10:53                         ` [uml-devel] updating 2.6 to merge 2.4 changes(was: Re: bug in COW? - Re: [uml-user] uml 2.6.0-test9 crash) BlaisorBlade
2003-12-08 20:42                           ` Jeff Dike
2003-12-08 21:32                             ` Henrik Nordstrom
2003-12-08 23:50                               ` Jeff Dike

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