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Re: [Xen-users] How was CoW implemented on the Demo LiveCD (3.0) ??

To: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] How was CoW implemented on the Demo LiveCD (3.0) ??
From: Anand <xen.mails@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:55:16 +0530
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Can the same method of cow used in the LiveCD be implemented with LVM ? instead of the flat images ?

Thanks.

On 1/24/06, Tim Deegan < Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think you'll need to copy over some of the scripts from the demo CD:

/etc/xen/scripts/block-cow
/usr/sbin/create_cow
/usr/sbin/destroy_cow

> disk = ['cow:/tmp/cdrom/rootfs.img 30,sda1,w']
> what does "30" mean here? A little bit hard to guess...

30 is the size of backing file to use, in this case 30MB.

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regards,

Anand
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