From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Al Boldi Subject: [RFC] VFS: FS CoW using redirection Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 20:41:54 +0300 Message-ID: <200607082041.54489.a1426z@gawab.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from [212.33.165.128] ([212.33.165.128]:60174 "EHLO raad.intranet") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964909AbWGHRkv (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jul 2006 13:40:51 -0400 To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Copy on Write is a neat way to quickly achieve a semi-clustered system, by mounting any shared FS read-only and redirecting writes to some perClient FS. Would this redirection be easy to implement into the VFS? Thanks! -- Al