Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Union file system | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 27 Nov 1996 18:00:08 -0600 |
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>>>>> "Mikko" == Mikko J Rauhala <mjrauhal@cc.helsinki.fi> writes:
Mikko> On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, D. Chiodo wrote:
>> Symlinks? Mount all the cd, network, disk, etc, then make symlinks from >> whereyou want you everything to appear to wherever the appropriate files >> are...
Mikko> Won't cut it. We're talking about a system that would allow you to eg. Mikko> mount a CD-ROM drive and then mount another filesystem "over" that, so Mikko> that if you write to the file system, the CD-ROM files are hidden behind Mikko> the new files on the writable media. Would be rather handy in some cases...
The cyrus people messing with guile have a hacked nfs server that (unless the reporting is all wrong) will allow this capability. You might have to configure it some yourself though. There was a posting on linux-announce a while ago about this. The claim was that it could do everything the hurd could do only slower.
Eric
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