Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 20:07:17 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Christian Laursen <xi@borderworlds.dk> Cc: freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Geom class project idea - geom_cow Message-ID: <6952.1156795637@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:37:07 %2B0200." <ygfpsek95qk.fsf@dominion.borderworlds.dk>
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In message <ygfpsek95qk.fsf@dominion.borderworlds.dk>, Christian Laursen writes : >I have an idea for a geom class that I think could be useful in a number >of scenarios. > >The basic idea is that it takes two existing providers and uses the first >one as a starting point and the other one to keep changes to the first >one using copy-on-write. This one has been one of the inspirations for GEOMs generality from the very beginning, but so far nobody has actually written it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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