Re: [ANNOUNCE] mini_fo-0.6.0 overlay file system

[Jörn Engel]

On Fri, 13 May 2005 07:26:14 -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> 
> >It solves the biggest concern I had left for union mount.  Actually
> >implementing it, though, depends on quite a bit of infrastructure  
> >that just
> >doesn't exist yet.  Still, a very interesting idea.
> 
> For ext2/ext3, the sparse-file-support _does_ exist, so the only  
> major parts
> that need to be added are:
>     o An extra ext2/ext3 flag that indicates nonresidence (For both  
> sparse
>       files, normal files, and directories).
>     o VFS-level support for the union operation with hooks to let each
>       filesystem do something special.

That and replacing the page cache by something different.  Page cache
is referencing pages by inode,offset pairs.  Having a potentially
infinite amount of inodes to look at, in order, may require a tiny bit
of patching. ;)

Jörn

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