diff --git a/repos/gems/recipes/src/vfs_cow/content.mk b/repos/gems/recipes/src/vfs_cow/content.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..85316766e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/gems/recipes/src/vfs_cow/content.mk
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+MIRROR_FROM_REP_DIR := lib/mk/vfs_cow.mk src/lib/vfs/cow
+
+content: $(MIRROR_FROM_REP_DIR) LICENSE
+
+$(MIRROR_FROM_REP_DIR):
+	$(mirror_from_rep_dir)
+
+LICENSE:
+	cp $(GENODE_DIR)/LICENSE $@
diff --git a/repos/gems/recipes/src/vfs_cow/hash b/repos/gems/recipes/src/vfs_cow/hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..594e9271af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/gems/recipes/src/vfs_cow/hash
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+2018-07-04 9414be00340489d4ee1e1bf39e53bf1cd9469400
diff --git a/repos/gems/recipes/src/vfs_cow/used_apis b/repos/gems/recipes/src/vfs_cow/used_apis
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6069d79557
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/gems/recipes/src/vfs_cow/used_apis
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+base
+os
+so
+vfs