Re: Union file system

Mikko J Rauhala (mjrauhal@cc.helsinki.fi)
Wed, 27 Nov 1996 17:24:46 +0200 (EET)


On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, D. Chiodo wrote:

> Symlinks? Mount all the cd, network, disk, etc, then make symlinks from
> whereyou want you everything to appear to wherever the appropriate files
> are...

Won't cut it. We're talking about a system that would allow you to eg.
mount a CD-ROM drive and then mount another filesystem "over" that, so
that if you write to the file system, the CD-ROM files are hidden behind
the new files on the writable media. Would be rather handy in some cases...

- Mjr, sivari

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