The cowloop-driver is a copy-on-write loop driver (block device) to be used on top of any other block driver.
The cowloop-driver shields the lower driver from any write accesses. Instead, it diverts all write-accesses to an arbitrary regular file.

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Linux

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Programming Language

C

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2004-11-15