status of copy-on-write filesystem?

status of copy-on-write filesystem?

[Chris Friesen]

I'm doing some work where it would simplify things greatly to have 
copy-on-write semantics available.

I've seen overlayfs and the proposed "-union" option for mount,  but 
there doesn't seem to be anything thats really ready for serious use.

Am I missing something?  Is someone working on this?


Thanks,

Chris


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Re: status of copy-on-write filesystem?

[Herbert Poetzl]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 10:13:43AM -0500, Chris Friesen wrote:
> 
> I'm doing some work where it would simplify things greatly to have 
> copy-on-write semantics available.
> 
> I've seen overlayfs and the proposed "-union" option for mount,  but 
> there doesn't seem to be anything thats really ready for serious use.
> 
> Am I missing something?  Is someone working on this?

http://vserver.13thfloor.at/TBVFS

no active work atm, but some info/links maybe

HTH,
Herbert

> Thanks,
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
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