Re: [PATCH] cowlinks v2

[Jörn Engel]

On Sat, 20 March 2004 08:48:43 -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On 20 Mar 2004, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> 
> > What happens if the disk fills while you are making the copy?  Will
> > open(2) on an *existing file* then return ENOSPC?
> > 
> > I do not think you can implement this without changing the interface
> > to open(2).  Which means applications have to be made aware of it
> > anyway.  Which means you might as well leave your implementation as-is
> > and let userspace worry about creating the copy (and dealing with the
> > resulting errors).
> 
> FWIW I did this quite some time ago to speed up copy+diff linux kernel 
> trees:
> 
> http://www.xmailserver.org/flcow.html
> 
> It is entirely userspace and uses LD_PRELOAD on my dev shell.

Nice work.  I was thinking about something like that as an
intermediate solution (my goal is libc inclusion), just with slightly
different checks:

	int ret = open(...);
	if (ret == -EMLINK)
		ret = cow_open(...);
	return ret;

Jörn

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