cowdancer
cowdancer allows copy-on-write file access. You can copy a full tree using hard links, and cowdancer will create a new copy when you need to write to a file. It's completely implemented in userland, and should run on most Linux filesystems.
| Licenses | GPL |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 05 Mar 2006 08:11
Release Notes: This release supports spaces in filenames.
- 25 Jan 2006 16:17
Release Notes: This release check for error values on COW operations and returns errors to the application with ENOMEM.
- 14 Jan 2006 21:35
Release Notes: A pthread race condition on initialization was fixed.
- 08 Jan 2006 08:23
Release Notes: This release fixes a problem found during stress testing. It changes the order of copying for the case when /lib/ld.so binary is written to; shared binaries cannot be forked/exec'd while ld.so does not exist.
- 07 Jan 2006 00:29
Release Notes: Speed improvements were made. The binary ilist is saved in cow-shell and loaded mmap in cowdancer. The ilist is now also sorted. The code is now a bit more thread-safe.
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- Popularity Score
- 79.71
- Vitality Score
- 3.31
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