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SubjectRe: Union file system

On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Alan Cox wrote:

>
> > Won't cut it. We're talking about a system that would allow you to eg.
> > mount a CD-ROM drive and then mount another filesystem "over" that, so
> > that if you write to the file system, the CD-ROM files are hidden behind
> > the new files on the writable media. Would be rather handy in some cases...
>
> Sounds like IFS. Im not sure what happened to IFS however.

The original author stopped maintaining it way back after it didn't make
it into the kernel.

Mike

Michael Neuffer i-Connect.Net, a Division of iConnect Corp.
mike@i-Connect.Net 14355 SW Allen Blvd., Suite 140
503.641.8774 Beaverton, OR 97005


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