Copy protection
Vassilis Virvilis
vasvir at iit.demokritos.gr
Thu Oct 5 04:03:04 CDT 2006
Mike McCormack wrote:
>
> Tim Schmidt wrote:
>
>> It sounds like a general framework for routing these kind of raw disk
>> i/o would be useful... probably configurable by app would be most
>> useful.
>
>
> UML has a COW (copy-on-write) layer [1]. If we had something like this,
> conceivable we could allow Wine to read raw disks (or the COW file),
> then write back to the COW file.
>
> It would be even nicer if the Linux kernel supported that in a general
> way...
>
> Mike
>
>
> [1] http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/UserModeLinux-HOWTO-7.html
>
>
>
How about a loopback device in linux?
.bill
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