Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Transparent mounts | Date | 18 Nov 1999 00:57:55 GMT |
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Followup to: <19991117185037.B5744@surfsouth.com> By author: Chad Miller <cmiller@surfsouth.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 09:26:41PM +0000, Riley Williams wrote: > > Basically, one facility I could use is that of being able to mount two > > or more partitions on top of each other and have all the files from > > all of the partitions available for reading. This is what I call a > > transparent mount. > > It sounds a lot like (BSD's?) union mount. >
Yes it does, as well as the IFS (inherited filesystem) that Linux *did* have for a while. It got dropped because of lack of interest, mostly.
-hpa
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