Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 May 2004 13:48:59 +0200 | From | Erik Mouw <> | Subject | Re: Reading from file in module fails |
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On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 01:43:16PM +0200, Libor Vanek wrote: > > (BTW, if you need to copy files from kernel, it's usually a sign of bad > > design) > > It's not bad design - what I'm doing is writing snapshots for VFS as > my diploma thesis. And I need to create copy of file before it's > changed (copy-on-write). There is no other way how to do it in > kernel-space (and user-space solutions like using LUFS are really > slow)
Have a look at the cowlinks (copy-on-write links) thread from last month, it might do the trick.
Erik
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