From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: "Montgomery, Kendal L" <kendal.montgomery@qwest.com>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, jdike@sonycom.com
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Separate COW patch.
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 17:23:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200310062123.h96LNhGj020809@ccure.karaya.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:53:40 CDT." <2D4B6CD74137D4119A1100104BC6BCBF0BC58605@dubntex006.qwest.net>
kendal.montgomery@qwest.com said:
> Where can I get what you've worked on so far? I'd be willing to give
> it a try and possibly help to sort out the remaining pieces that need
> to make it work.
It's in arch/um/drivers/cow_kern.c. The bit that got me hung up was ensuring
that COW bitmap updates happen before the actual I/O. This is necessary
in case the UML crashes during a write. You want the bitmap update to
happen only after the data has been written.
Jeff
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-29 16:53 [uml-devel] Separate COW patch Montgomery, Kendal L
2003-10-06 21:23 ` Jeff Dike [this message]
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2003-09-26 22:45 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
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