From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
To: "'user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net'"
<user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Separate COW patch.
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 21:44:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030928014432.GP9124@alcor.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2D4B6CD74137D4119A1100104BC6BCBF0BC585FC@dubntex006.qwest.net>
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 06:45:26PM -0400, Montgomery, Kendal L wrote:
> I was wondering if there was anyone who is trying to use the COW
> filesystem in a normal linux kernel? Is this possible, or is it tied
> exclusively to the rest of the UML patch? How difficult would it be to
> make a COW only patch? I have a certain project that I'm working on that
> the COW filesystem (or really, any other "union" filesystem, but I can't
> find any that are actively developed or fully cooked) would be perfect
> for. I have a read-only filesystem that, occasionally needs to
> temoroarily have some changed made to it, but then the need to be undone.
> I've looked into various ways of doing this from "snapshotting," to
> user-controlled transactions on a journalling filesystem (no such thing
> seems to exist for ext3 or reiserfs) where I could explicitly begin a
> transaction, then roll back the transaction when I'm done (kinda like a
> database txn), etc. The COW filesystem seems like it would be a perfect
> fit, but before I go trying to merge things into a non-UML kernel on my
> own I just want to see if anyone else has already done this or not. Is
> anyone else even interested in such a
You want the snapshot feature in device-mapper, with lvm2 or evms. It does
exactly what you've described, with any filesystem.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-26 22:45 [uml-devel] Separate COW patch Montgomery, Kendal L
2003-09-26 23:14 ` Goetz Bock
2003-09-27 0:02 ` Jeff Dike
2003-09-27 22:56 ` Michael Richardson
2003-09-28 0:00 ` Paul Sladen
2003-09-28 1:44 ` Matt Zimmerman [this message]
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2003-09-29 16:53 Montgomery, Kendal L
2003-10-06 21:23 ` Jeff Dike
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