Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 27 Nov 1996 18:42:45 -0500 (EST) | From | Greg Alexander <> | Subject | Re: Union file system |
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On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Paul Slootman wrote:
> When I tried Yggdrasil's stuff a couple of years back, that distribution > has something called IFS ("Werner's Inherited File System", IIRC). This > was used in a configuration where you chose to leave most of the stuff > on de CDROM, and your filesystem got mounted over that. You could change > files, and those files would be copied to and updated on your filesystem. > > I recall that it worked quite well. Anyone know why it didn't get into > the mainstream kernel?
The docs say that it still has some known bugs. at least the copy on tsx-11. It seems no one knows it exists, so if it gets to be a bit more well used I'm sure someone would get upset enough to actually fix it.
Greg Alexander http://www.cia-g.com/~sietch/
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