From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Has anyone ever considered a COW patch for loop.c
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 19:13:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031028001316.GT6350@dijkstra.csh.rit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F9DA82B.7020808@easyco.com>
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:20:11PM -0800, Doug Dumitru wrote:
> It would be really intersting to do a cow format compatible patch for
> loop.c so that the standard loopback device could mount cow file pairs.
>
> Has anyone considered/started on this. If not, I might give it a hack.
As I've said before, I think the way to go would be to teach device-mapper
about the COW on-disk metadata format, and treat it as a snapshot.
--
- mdz
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2003-10-27 23:20 [uml-devel] Has anyone ever considered a COW patch for loop.c Doug Dumitru
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