Any thought to making a file plugin that creates copy on write files?
The operation would be something like a hardlink which is invisible to
the user and broken as soon as either file is modified.
Files could be COWed by a flag on the cp command (or really, perhaps
that should be the default
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
Files could be COWed by a flag on the cp command (or really, perhaps
that should be the default behavior) or with a utility (perhaps run as
a periodic script to locate duplicates and COW them. This would
greatly speed up the process of copying files.
Should be on the
David Masover wrote:
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
Files could be COWed by a flag on the cp command (or really, perhaps
that should be the default behavior) or with a utility (perhaps run as
a periodic script to locate duplicates and COW them. This would
greatly speed up the process of copying files.
directory trees. Perhaps
with a reiser4 specific tool that does a COW cp -al.
Ok, are you talking about making all the files COW, or the directory
structure itself somehow COW?
Because if someone patched cp to do COW files, I'm sure it would also
work for cp -a, which would be about as fast as cp -al
David Masover wrote:
Ok, are you talking about making all the files COW, or the directory
structure itself somehow COW?
Because if someone patched cp to do COW files, I'm sure it would also
work for cp -a, which would be about as fast as cp -al.
I'm not sure how it'd work to make entire
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
Any thought to making a file plugin that creates copy on write files?
The operation would be something like a hardlink which is invisible to
the user and broken as soon as either file is modified.
Files could be COWed by a flag on the cp command (or really, perhaps
that
