Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 21 Sep 2001 09:36:25 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Wrapfs a stackable file system |
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On 21 Sep 2001, Oystein Viggen wrote:
> * [ David Chow] > > > The idea is orinigally from FiST, a stackable file system. But the FiST > > owner Erez seems given up to maintain the project. At the time I receive > > the code, it is so buggy, even unusable, lots of segmentation fault > > problems. I have debugging the fs for quite a while. Now it is useful in > > just use as a file system wrapper. It is useful in chroot environments > > and hardlinks aren't available. It wraps a directory and mount to > > another directory on tops of any filesystems. > > Is this not essentially what we already have with mount --bind in 2.4?
Bindings can be used to get the same result, but underlying mechanics is different. Wrapfs is not the most interesting application of FiST, so it's hardly a surprise...
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