Re: Translucent overmounts

From: Adam Lazur (adam@lazur.org)
Date: Tue Apr 16 2002 - 16:05:06 EST

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Dale Amon (amon@vnl.com) said:
> It would be useful to take an RO device and overmount (or vice
> versa) a ramdisk for temporary data. Say a /etc on CDROM with
> an overmounted /etc/mtab...
>
> Is anyone working on such a translucent file system?

What you're talking about is normally called a union mount.

I think I saw somewhere that Al Viro was working on it.

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Adam Lazur, Cluster Monkey
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