From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] mounting COW on HOST?
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 21:18:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031209021803.GO582@dijkstra.csh.rit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <009701c3bded$d0efef70$2000000a@schlepptopp>
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:45:59AM +0100, roland wrote:
> one thing came to my mind today: why not porting the COW feature of UML to
> the "mainstream" linuxkernel itself?
> i would find this useful - not only in relation to UML.
> maybe there is already something like this? don`t know....
> what would we need? modifying loopdevice(mount -o loop...) code? perhaps using
> lufs for that? (btw: long awaited read/write support for ntfs partitions has
> been implemented via lufs and native windows ntfs.sys driver!)
> maybe this has been discussed already?
This has come up several times before; search the mailing list archives.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-09 0:45 [uml-devel] mounting COW on HOST? roland
2003-12-09 2:10 ` greg
2003-12-09 3:58 ` Russell Coker
2003-12-09 2:18 ` Matt Zimmerman [this message]
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