Re: unionfs

[Jörn Engel]

On Mon, 15 March 2004 14:16:01 +0100, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Mon, 15 March 2004 20:47:05 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> > On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, [iso-8859-1] Jörn Engel wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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.
> 
> If you have a cleaner idea, I'm open for suggestions.

Stupid me.  Simply open a file in the cached fs, so it can't be
umounted.

Jörn

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