UML was Re: [plug] Cooking :)

[Cameron Patrick]

On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 02:30:49PM +0400, Brad Campbell wrote:

| Except that I run with the new version and then blitz the backup when it 
| has passed my reliability acceptance testing, so doing it this way uses 
| more space for a couple of days but then it gets deleted anyway.

uml_moo will merge a COW file into the original image.  And to revert
to the original state you can always rm or mv the COW, or just use a
different COW file with the same backing file.  There's very little
reason /not/ to use them. (-:

| I had thought about COW but it's not the easy way to do what I want to, 
| and with a 60GB drive on my laptop I'm hardly pushed for space :p)

Fair enough :-)

Cheers,

Cameron.

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