copy of write for disk blocks

From: Prashant Shah
Date: Thu Oct 10 2013 - 04:45:01 EST


Hi,

Is it feasible to add support for copy of write for disk blocks within the block layer itself ? Setting a flag in the struct bio will cause the block layer to copy the original data before over writing it.

Regards.
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