Cowloop
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cowloop-219-4615179
title:
Cowloop
text:
Cowloop was a Linux kernel driver that allows read-only filesystems to be made writable using the kernel module cowloop.ko. Cowloop worked by writing modified blocks to a separate file known as a cowfile, which is created by using the cowdev command to associate a block device, such as a CD, to a writable file. Cowloop is now largely deprecated in favor of the device-mapper snapshot target which provides the same functionality and is also integrated with LVM2. Cowloop provided a somewhat similar
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Linux kernel driver
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowloop
date created:
2007-03-25T16:19:06Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T15:22:15Z
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