Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 26 Jun 1996 01:04:39 +0300 (EET DST) | From | Andi Gutmans <> | Subject | Loopback directory mounts |
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Hey,
Is anybody working on loopback directory mounts for Linux? (I don't mean the loopback filesystem mounts in the kernel now) More like the ones in SunOs where you can do something like mount -t lo /var /local/var Someone (a swiss guy) did some work on this 100's of kernel versions ago (he tried to implement more than the simple loopback mount which is prolly the reason why it didn't get stable and was put in the kernel)
Does someone want to revive it? (I was thinking about it but i don't think i have enough knowledge on doing it. Maybe if someone wants to work on it with me together) I prefer just doing the simple mount and not all the extras he wanted to implement (that just asks for bugs) It basically involves keeping a virtual file system which actually just calls the real filesystems functions witht he right parameters (on the whole)
Please someone reply :) This is something I'd love to see in the later kernels. It basically works instead of symbolic links and is much safer because it can't just be "erased" like symbolic links it's much nicer and if Sun implemented it i bet there are more reasons for it :) (OK don't flame me on this one)
Thanks,
Andi
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