Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:05:06 -0400 | From | Adam Lazur <> | Subject | Re: Translucent overmounts |
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Dale Amon (amon@vnl.com) said: > It would be useful to take an RO device and overmount (or vice > versa) a ramdisk for temporary data. Say a /etc on CDROM with > an overmounted /etc/mtab... > > Is anyone working on such a translucent file system?
What you're talking about is normally called a union mount.
I think I saw somewhere that Al Viro was working on it.
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