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SubjectRe: Translucent overmounts
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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