[Gllug] Symlink but with cow powers?

[Jason Clifford]

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 12:37 +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> I've no idea how joomla works but if it can be made to live on a
> single partition then one option might be to use LVM snapshots.  Have
> a single origin partition containing the "virgin" copy and mount
> snapshots backed by smaller storage partitions which will contain just
> the increments.  It's a bit heavyweight to manage something like this
> however -- normally one might use snapshots backed by /dev/ram which
> disappear on reboot (eg. how many live CDs work), but I guess that's
> not an option for you.

You are right - it's too heavyweight.

I anticipate several hundred instances at the least and possible several
thousand. I also want the changes made in the cow'd files to be
permanent as these are for long term hosted websites.


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