Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Mar 2004 13:40:15 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] cowlinks v2 |
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Pavel Machek wrote: > Actually, there's 4th strategy, too. You could implement sharing at block level. > Block free bitmap would become bigger, but you could do some tricks to keep it > at ~8 bits per block...
For sharing source trees and such, and even for COW overlays of /usr/lib and /usr/bin, that would have no benefit: you never write to just part of a source or object file.
For databases (including things like the RPM database), and snapshots of filesystems, it would be more useful.
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