Re: stackable layers in filesytem

Jan Pechanec (pechy@hp735.cvut.cz)
Thu, 8 Oct 1998 07:35:32 +0100 (MET)


On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Marty Leisner wrote:

*>
*>Does freebsd stackable layers work? (Which version?)
*>
*>Marty Leisner
*>

Yes, more or less. Stackable layers were implemented into 4.4 BSD,
so they are now in FreeBSD.

See "mount_null" command, null layer just serves as a
demonstration of layering by providing a layer which does nothing.

See also unionfs.

bye, Jan Pechanec.

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