Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 07 Jan 1998 11:14:15 +0000 | From | Richard Jones <> | Subject | Re: Overlay writable filesystem over r/o partition [long] |
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Peter Horton wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Richard Jones wrote: > > Are you thinking of copying the file completely when it is written to, or > on a block by block basis ? I could definately think of a few uses for an > overlay filesystem ......
You have to copy the whole file unfortunately. You don't copy it until you know the write operation will succeed.
Rich.
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