From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937041AbWLKS5H (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:57:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763009AbWLKS5G (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:57:06 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.172]:35962 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S937515AbWLKS5F (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:57:05 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=JqMPXMLCIoAJ393zVOWT9lWOjlOR5tUJk9pdyWNHgfRRT0YXsgsbnaJt6U3fB/BYEaEaaAa3qF6TXfOKWwTrVkslKHQ6exzy2rOx7Y1OHygQyRAkfaIKAmwK2XK1dAjnZ9WdWg4GVVj+EVgBcxHKu4+q7qmJzQZMWGspTIVshXs= Message-ID: Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:57:03 -0600 From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" To: "Eric Van Hensbergen" Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] dm-cow: copy-on-write stackable target for device-mapper Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com, paurea@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <200611271659.kARGx5qb017564@hera.kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200611271659.kARGx5qb017564@hera.kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/27/06, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > Subject: [RFC] [PATCH] dm-cow: copy-on-write stackable target for device-mapper > > This is the first cut of a device-mapper target which allows stacking of > multiple block devices and in which the top-layer of the stack is a > copy-on-write layer. It was originally developed in support of a cluster > image management solution. > The paper describing our motivation for this work including some description of this implementation and performance results is now available: http://domino.research.ibm.com/library/cyberdig.nsf/1e4115aea78b6e7c85256b360066f0d4/801d563d3be022198525723c006fafc1?OpenDocument -eric