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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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To: Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com>
Cc: Michael Bacarella <mbac@bsd4.nyct.net>,
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Subject: Re: Copy-on-write filesystem
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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 
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