Re: unionfs

[Ian Kent]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, [iso-8859-1] Jörn Engel wrote:

> On Mon, 15 March 2004 12:35:25 +0100, Carsten Otte wrote:
> > Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> > >FWIW, have a look at http://vserver.13thfloor.at/TBVFS
> > I do really think this problem needs to be solved a different way: BSD-style 
> > union mount in VFS, no redirecting filesystem.
> > I am planning to work on that during the 2.7. series. I do hope I will be able 
> > to write code clean enough for inclusion, lets see...
> 
> You could also have some sort of 'hidden symlink', i.e. something that
> behaves just like a file but is in fact a link to some other
> filesystem.  If that other filesystem is not accessable, all
> operations return -EIO.

Sounds a bit untidy.

Has anyone checked http://www.filesystems.org/

What do you think?

Ian

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