Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Wrapfs a stackable file system | From | Oystein Viggen <> | Date | 21 Sep 2001 15:25:28 +0200 |
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* [ 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?
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