On Thu, 27 October 2005 19:05:16 +0100, Paulo da Silva wrote:
>
> I am reading the ext2 fs code. One of my purposes
> is to save the original data of a file to another file
> just before it is changed by write/mmap/whatever.
> Because of mmap (any other reasons?) I thought
> of doing this at "ext2-writepage" or/and
> "ext2-writepages".
>
> Is this the right place?
Maybe, but the error handling will drive you insane. My approach was
to copy on open, not on write. See
http://wohnheim.fh-wedel.de/~joern/cowlink/
Jörn
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