On Monday 25 December 2006 14:46, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 03:39:57AM -0800, A B wrote: > > Is this easy to do? > > use some host directory (hostfs) as root, then some > > file for COW? > > It's not implemented, if that's what you're asking. > > Jeff Something similar can be done with unionfs / translucency. They do not use directly COW files, they stack together filesystem. The "top-layer" fs could use a UBD device (with or without COW).
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