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From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] About COW & filesystems
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 11:37:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031029163702.GA6350@dijkstra.csh.rit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY10-DAV26Yvm7kLig00008a71@hotmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 06:16:18AM -0800, James McMechan wrote:

> Well above ubd we can use DM from inside the UML but outside of the UML
> I still want to be able to set up COW files at the system level.
> Matt Zimmerman said that DM is in 2.4 which I had somehow missed and
> that
> the DM snapshot feature could be used in place of COW

No, I said it was available...it is not in 2.4 stock, but a 2.4 patch is
actively maintained; I use it on many systems.  It might not be infeasible
for it to be included in a later 2.4, but I don't track that sort of thing.

-- 
 - mdz


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-29 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-28  9:34 [uml-devel] About COW & filesystems James McMechan
2003-10-28 17:17 ` Matt Zimmerman
2003-10-28 17:23 ` Jeff Dike
2003-10-29 14:16   ` James McMechan
2003-10-29 16:37     ` Matt Zimmerman [this message]
2003-10-29 17:13     ` Steve Schnepp
2003-10-29 18:23     ` Jeff Dike

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