On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:40:03PM +0000, Senior Goat wrote: > Is there a way to do copy-on-write filesystem access? I think it may also > be called drive overlaying or something. I remember that there were > several efforts to do this a few years ago, but I haven't heard anything > since. > > I know UML does it above the kernel. I wonder if there's some way to do > this so you could, say, mount a CDROM and RAM so that all writes go to RAM, > effectively making a CDROM that you could modify until you unmounted it.
You mean like mount_union in BSD? maybe try http://vserver.13thfloor.at/TBVFS/ ? > It would also be good for flash memory where a device can only do so many > writes before it dies. I'm thinking of trying to boot off either of these > two, a CDROM or a flash disk, but while the system is running it needs to > be able to write things. Right now I've got a <400m filesystem in RAM. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
