Re: "Hyper-Mount" option possible???

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Thu Nov 23 2000 - 12:09:15 EST


Followup to: <3A1D3DF9.9199C744@earthlink.net>
By author: Robert L Martin <robertlmarti@earthlink.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Not on list just throwing an idea out.
> One thing that "bugs" me is if a given drive has more than one partion
> each partion has to be mounted seperatly.
> With CDs this also means you can not mount "split" cds in full if you
> want to. Soo Given that Super-Mount is already taken, How about (in
> 2.5??) hashing out a Hypermount option.
> The way it could work is if you mount a full drive say "hdd" and have
> each partion mounted on a tree from the mount point
> of the drive.
>

This sounds a lot like cdfs.

        -hpa

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