This package contains the cowloop driver for Copy-on-Write
operations on (other) block devices. Documentation is provided
by manpages cowloop(4), cowdev(1) and cowrepair(1), and in
a PostScript doc-file. These are all part of this package.

To install the driver etc. in a Linux 2.6 kernel based system:

1) Check that block device major number 241 is currently unused,
   because this driver wants to take it.
   Checking can e.g. be done by looking in /proc/devices 
   If 241 is occupied, change the COWMAJOR definition in the
   files 'src/cowloop.c' and 'src/Makefile' and 'src/makecowdevs'

2) Go to the 'src' subdirectory, and type 
   make             (you don't have to be root for this)
   make install     (you must be root for this)

   If necessary, these steps can be reverted by
   make clean; make uninstall

   The 'make' can (if you wish) be split into 2 separate steps
   'make module' and 'make utils' 

   The 'make install' can (if you wish) be split into 5 separate steps
   'make install-module', 'make install-utils', 'make install-dev',
   'make install-man' and 'make install-doc' 

The manpage 'cowloop(4)', which is installed as part of the above
procedure, contains an example of using the cowloop on a
write-protected floppy disk.

In case you want to add this cowloop driver to the main kernel
tree of your system (which usually is *not* necessary), please
consult the two 'kerneltree'-files in the 'src'-directory.

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Hendrik-Jan Thomassen (maintainer)      hjt@ATComputing.nl
Gerlof Langeveld (author)            gerlof@ATConsultancy.nl
