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Subject: Re: status of supermount?
To: jonas@berlin.vg (Jonas Berlin)
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 23:22:59 +0100 (BST)
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> I have no idea if anyone else has done anything similar. Personally I
> initially found this patch as a part of the standard kernel provided by
> mandrake 7.2 (most likely), but I don't know whether they have it in there

The Mandrake folks (Juan in paticular I believe) have been doing this work.
Alternatively you can do the same kind of stuff in userspace now thanks
to Al Viro's mount cleanups.

Take a look at volumagic on ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/..

its strictly a proof of concept
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