From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: carl <cspalletta@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] vfs: support for COW files in sys_open
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 05:16:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060617051657.GA7464@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060609165321.66EEC118601@localhost.localdomain>
Hi!
> Giving the O_COW flag to open() will return a special error, if
> IS_COW(inode) and write permissions are expressed or implied. COW-aware
> applications may set this flag and deal with this error according to
> some user defined policy. This will not change the semantics of any
> existing application or affect any kernel user of open_namei(); nor does
> it affect future applications unless they use O_COW. Filesystem level
> code is unimplemented except for an ext2 example.
Can you give us overview how this is used? COW for ext2 seems nice...
Is the plan to allow cp -a --cow linux linux.new ?
Pavel
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2006-06-09 16:53 carl
2006-06-17 5:16 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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