Re: unionfs

[Jörn Engel]

On Mon, 15 March 2004 22:35:20 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> 
> I don't understand the requirement properly. Sorry.

Depends on who you ask, but imo it boils down to this:
- Use one filesystem as backing store, usually ro.
- Have another filesystem on top for extra functionality, usually rw
  access.

Famous example is a rw-CDROM, where writes go to hard drive and
unchanged data is read from CDROM.  But it makes sense for other
things as well.

Jörn

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