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    SubjectRe: silent semantic changes with reiser4
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    On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 16:34 +0400, Alex Zarochentsev wrote:

    > Do you mean COW files or some another thing? For COW files, the reiser4
    > support is not enough, we need to teach cp(1) or another utility to inform the
    > fs layer that copying can be done by creation of COW files.

    it's easy enough to add that via an fs ioctl(), I did the equivalent
    last semester for some research I'm doing while using ext3cow (which
    unfortunately was put on hold for the summer), it's just a take off of
    sys_link(), a sys_cowpy() of sorts.


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