Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 22:37:45 +0800 (WST)
From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@freenet.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       mszeredi@inf.bme.hu, herbert@13thfloor.at
Subject: Re: unionfs
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On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, [iso-8859-1] J?rn Engel wrote:

> 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?

There was talk on the mailing list that they were close to releasing a 
unionfs filesystem for their fistgen generator. But it has been a while 
and still nothing.

Ian

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