Re: looking for resources for designing loopback filesystem

From: Ville Herva (vherva@mail.niksula.cs.hut.fi)
Date: Mon Aug 06 2001 - 11:11:46 EST


On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 08:23:47AM -0700, you [dave-mlist@bfnet.com] claimed:
> I'd like to create a filesystem which mirrors another local
> filesystem, but with different permissions, and with some content
> invisible to some users. Is there a kernel module that does this
> already? Is the loopback module the one? If so, where can I learn
> about applying the module to this purpose?

Perhaps you could hack an nfs-server (knfsd or nfsd) to do the permission
tweaks and hiding and then just mount the stuff over to another location
with ordinary nfs client stuff.

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