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Subject: Re: [RFC] VFS: FS CoW using redirection
From: Shaya Potter <spotter@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
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On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 20:41 +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
> Copy on Write is a neat way to quickly achieve a semi-clustered system, by 
> mounting any shared FS read-only and redirecting writes to some perClient 
> FS.
> 
> Would this redirection be easy to implement into the VFS?

I've used unionfs that way.