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SubjectRe: is there a COW inside the kernel ?
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On Fri March 3 2006 3:29 pm, roland wrote:
> i think i will take a closer look on device-mapper, but i'm unsure if it`s
> perfectly suited.
>
> can i only use devices, not files for the cow?

Yes, Device-Mapper can only map to block-devices. If you need to do this with
files, you could use losetup to create block-device from them. However, the
COW device still won't "grow" automatically as you described.

> what about merging a cow-dev/file back to the r/o-dev/file ?

Device-Mapper does not directly support this, but EVMS provides a "rollback"
function for reverting an origin volume back to the contents of its snapshot
volume.

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Kevin Corry
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