In reply:
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote:
>
> > Can someone tell me why copy-on-write filesystems would be bad?
>
> It's a good idea. Peter Braam and I have written a device (called memdev)
> for linux (sorry!) that implements a virtual-memory-backed copy-on-write
> block device (like the loopback device, but uses anon vm pages for store).
>
> It's pretty interesting. It's quite fast, and copy-on-write does seem to
> work OK for a filesystem. I'm using this thing as one of two pieces of a
> new private name space implementation that would also work quite well on
> freebsd.
Ever experience CDC Cyber NOS? Interesting private-space filesystem
with many apps today.
jim
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