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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 04:00:00 -0300
From: John R Lenton <john@grulic.org.ar>
To: Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>
Cc: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OK to mount multiple FS in one dir?
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On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 12:25:10AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> 
> [Wakko Warner]
> > I have a question, why was this idea even considered?
> 
> Al Viro likes Plan9 process-local namespaces.  He seems to be trying to
> move Linux in that direction.  In the past year he has been hacking the
> semantics of filesystems and mounting, probably with namespaces as an
> eventual goal, and this is one of the things that has fallen out of the
> implementation.

Aren't "translucid" mounts the idea behind this?
-- 
John Lenton (john@grulic.org.ar) -- Random fortune:
For courage mounteth with occasion.
		-- William Shakespeare, "King John"
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