Re: pbuilder: cowdancer/cowbuilder status update

2006-01-14 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > Another difference I noticed is that fl-cow takes a list of > > directories to protect in FL_COW, and seems to copy files > > unconditionally on 'open'. > > > > cowdancer caches a list of i-nodes so that it won't try to break > > hardlinks more than once. (cow-shell does this much work).

Re: pbuilder: cowdancer/cowbuilder status update

2006-01-12 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > Another difference I noticed is that fl-cow takes a list of > > directories to protect in FL_COW, and seems to copy files > > unconditionally on 'open'. > > > > cowdancer caches a list of i-nodes so that it won't try to break > > hardlinks more than once. (cow-shell does this much work).

Re: pbuilder: cowdancer/cowbuilder status update

2006-01-12 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 08:42 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hi, > > > > This is an update on using userland COW method with pbuilder. > > > > > > cowdancer is a tool that allows you to "cp -al" (hardlink) a tree, and > > > break the hardlink when a write-open to a file is performed. The > > > adve

Re: pbuilder: cowdancer/cowbuilder status update

2006-01-12 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > This is an update on using userland COW method with pbuilder. > > > > cowdancer is a tool that allows you to "cp -al" (hardlink) a tree, and > > break the hardlink when a write-open to a file is performed. The > > adventurous part of cowdancer COW implementation is that it's trying > > to

Re: pbuilder: cowdancer/cowbuilder status update

2006-01-12 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 07:27 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hi, > > This is an update on using userland COW method with pbuilder. > > cowdancer is a tool that allows you to "cp -al" (hardlink) a tree, and > break the hardlink when a write-open to a file is performed. The > adventurous part of cowd

pbuilder: cowdancer/cowbuilder status update

2006-01-12 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, This is an update on using userland COW method with pbuilder. cowdancer is a tool that allows you to "cp -al" (hardlink) a tree, and break the hardlink when a write-open to a file is performed. The adventurous part of cowdancer COW implementation is that it's trying to do this from within use