Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 2 May 2004 18:18:20 +0200 (CEST) | | From | Guennadi Liakhovetski <> | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Filesystem with multiple mount-points |
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On Sun, 2 May 2004, GNU/Dizzy wrote:
> > for filesystem metadata, journals... Making those directories soft-links > > into one writable partition would work, but is not too nice. > > How about mounting the big volume somewhere and using -o bind to mount > some paths within it in different places of your needs ? I know that -o > bind doesnt honor -o ro yet but if you really needed maybe you can make a > patch for that, I for one would be very interested about that. > check "man mount" about more information about "bind" > > Also notice that linux (starting with some 2.3.x version if I remember > well) already supports multiple mount points for a given "source" like > mount /dev/hda1 /mnt1 > mount /dev/hda1 /mnt2 and so on
See "not nice" above. With the proposed option I would like to avoid having one file appear at multiple paths. IOW each file would appear in no more than 1 place in the tree.
Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski
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