Hello On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 11:18, Roland Paterson-Jones wrote: > Hi > > I have an application where I want to make relatively frequent copies of > a large file, and the copies will remain largely similar to the original. > > It seems to me that a file-level copy-on-write would support this well. > > So, does reiserfs support anything like this? >
No. > If not, can I implement this easily (how easily ;) ) with a plugin. > I guess you mean plugin for reiser4? You probably can but I do not think that it would be easy. > Any ideas and pointers greatfully received I think it would be easier to modify the application. You should probably start with detailed definition of your COW protocol. > Thanks > Roland > >
