Messages in this thread |  | | From | Steffen Grunewald <> | Subject | Re: Union file system | Date | Wed, 27 Nov 1996 17:18:22 +0100 (MET) |
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"Mikko J Rauhala writes" |> |> |> 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... |> |> 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... |>
Is that what was called 'translucent file system` ?
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