Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 17:41:24 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com> Cc: Michael Bacarella <mbac@bsd4.nyct.net>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Copy-on-write filesystem Message-ID: <200003040141.RAA12906@apollo.backplane.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0003031737290.9690-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>
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:Swap? I thought we were talking about a copy-on-write filesystem
:i.e. disk block, not memory, or did I really miss something
:
:Brian Beattie | The only problem with
Where are you copy-on-writing to? Unbacked memory? No way that
would ever work, at least not for any reasonably-sized filesystem.
The copied data has to go somewhere.
Or are you talking about the copy-on-write softlink business? That's
a whole different ball of wax.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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