Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262562AbUCONQT (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:16:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262564AbUCONQT (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:16:19 -0500 Received: from mail.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.232.194]:52694 "EHLO mail.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262562AbUCONQR (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:16:17 -0500 Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 14:16:01 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: Ian Kent Cc: Carsten Otte , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mszeredi@inf.bme.hu, herbert@13thfloor.at Subject: Re: unionfs Message-ID: <20040315131601.GC16615@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <200403151235.25877.cotte@freenet.de> <20040315121934.GB16615@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 976 Lines: 30 On Mon, 15 March 2004 20:47:05 +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, [iso-8859-1] J?rn Engel wrote: > > > > 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. > > Sounds a bit untidy. If you have a cleaner idea, I'm open for suggestions. > Has anyone checked http://www.filesystems.org/ > > What do you think? Looks like an abstraction layer that still assumes a 1:1 mapping between filesystems and devices, so it doesn't help. Did I miss something? J?rn -- And spam is a useful source of entropy for /dev/random too! -- Jasmine Strong - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/