Re: pbuilder: cowdancer/cowbuilder status update

2006-01-14 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, Another difference I noticed is that fl-cow takes a list of directories to protect in FL_COW, and seems to copy files unconditionally on 'open'. cowdancer caches a list of i-nodes so that it won't try to break hardlinks more than once. (cow-shell does this much work). Nice.

Re: pbuilder: cowdancer/cowbuilder status update

2006-01-12 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 07:27 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Hi, This is an update on using userland COW method with pbuilder. cowdancer is a tool that allows you to cp -al (hardlink) a tree, and break the hardlink when a write-open to a file is performed. The adventurous part of cowdancer

Re: pbuilder: cowdancer/cowbuilder status update

2006-01-12 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, This is an update on using userland COW method with pbuilder. cowdancer is a tool that allows you to cp -al (hardlink) a tree, and break the hardlink when a write-open to a file is performed. The adventurous part of cowdancer COW implementation is that it's trying to do this from

Re: pbuilder: cowdancer/cowbuilder status update

2006-01-12 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 08:42 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Hi, This is an update on using userland COW method with pbuilder. cowdancer is a tool that allows you to cp -al (hardlink) a tree, and break the hardlink when a write-open to a file is performed. The adventurous part of

Re: pbuilder: cowdancer/cowbuilder status update

2006-01-12 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, Another difference I noticed is that fl-cow takes a list of directories to protect in FL_COW, and seems to copy files unconditionally on 'open'. cowdancer caches a list of i-nodes so that it won't try to break hardlinks more than once. (cow-shell does this much work). Nice.