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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: Carsten Otte <cotte@freenet.de>
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On Mon, 15 March 2004 12:35:25 +0100, Carsten Otte wrote:
> Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> >FWIW, have a look at http://vserver.13thfloor.at/TBVFS
> I do really think this problem needs to be solved a different way: BSD-style 
> union mount in VFS, no redirecting filesystem.
> I am planning to work on that during the 2.7. series. I do hope I will be able 
> to write code clean enough for inclusion, lets see...

You could also have some sort of 'hidden symlink', i.e. something that
behaves just like a file but is in fact a link to some other
filesystem.  If that other filesystem is not accessable, all
operations return -EIO.

Not sure if this is a sane solution, but it would make my cow-stuff
work across filesystems as well.

J?rn

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