Re: Toronto Filsystem?
G. Sumner Hayes (sumner@collegium.adsl.net.cmu.edu)
Wed, 11 Feb 1998 11:20:43 -0500
On Wed, Feb 11, 1998 at 04:04:21PM +0100, Felix Schroeter wrote:
> Hello!
>
> In article <34E06EEE.AFE0F53A@linux.de> you write:
> >[...]
>
> >Can anyone give me a hint whether someone has done this or where to find
> >more information on Toronto implementations?
>
> Dunno. But you could look at the unionfs implementation for 4.4BSD.
> Unionfs is a rather similar thing: Mount a writeable directory over
> a read only directory. You can change files (they are automagically
> copied over to the upper layer), delete files (if the upper layer
> supports whiteout directory entries), and create new files, of course.
Also, try using Dejanews to search posts in the past two months
for "Translucent file system" or "Translucent filesystem" -- there
was quite a long thread on comp.os.linux.development.system on this
topic, which is basically the same as unionfs/Toronto/whatever you
want to call it.
-Sumner
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