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UNSTABLE

Download cowloop for Linux version 2.6.31

Version 3.2.0 and higher (Sep.2009) of cowloop: driver in mainline 2.6.32 kernel. Cowloop utils does not contain the kernel module anymore. This is a pre-release of the cowloop utilities for those wanting to experiment with the current development driver which is made ready for 2.6.32. See the "news" page to learn more.

STABLE

Download cowloop for Linux version 2.6

version 3.1 (Feb.2009) of cowloop: patches for Linux kernels up to 2.6.28.

Download cowloop for Linux version 2.4

Version 1 of the cowloop driver can be used for Linux kernel version 2.4. Notice that this version of the cowloop driver is not actively maintained any more.
Its functionality deviates from the description on this web-site:

• General
  The cowloop driver only supports one cowdevice (/dev/cowloop) that can only be activated by specifying the parameters rdofile= and cowfile= while entering the modprobe command.

  The size of the read-only file and cowfile is limited to 2 Gbytes.

  The cowloop driver modifies the bitlist more frequently to keep the cowfile in a consistent state (which means a performance-degradation compared to version 2).

• Load & unload
  The optional parameter "option=" is not supported. There is no possibility to garantee the consistency of the cowfile.

• Cowfiles
  A cowfile does not contain header-information. This implies that there is no possibility to verify whether an existing cowfile is related to the specified read-only file.

  The related commands to repair or query cowfiles are not delivered.

• Status info
  The layout of the status-information retrieved by reading /proc/cowloop is different.