Re: [uml-user] some COW questions

2008-03-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:15:25AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > 2) once i establish a COW file for a given backing file, i can use > > "chmod" to protect that backing file from inadvertant changes, yes? > > that seems to be the case based on my testing

Re: [uml-user] some COW questions

2008-03-06 Thread Jeff Dike
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:15:25AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > 1) each filesystem i use as part of my UML session can have its own > COW file, right? as in: > >... ubda=root.cow,root.img ubdc=usr.cow,usr.img ... etc etc ... Yup. > 2) once i establish a COW file for a given backing file

[uml-user] some COW questions

2008-03-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
after reading the (old) chapter on shared filesystems, some admittedly basic questions on COW files. (i'm fairly sure i know the answers here but i just want to play it safe.) 1) each filesystem i use as part of my UML session can have its own COW file, right? as in: ... ubda=root.cow,roo