Re: Wrapfs a stackable file system

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* [ David Chow]

> The idea is orinigally from FiST, a stackable file system. But the FiST
> owner Erez seems given up to maintain the project. At the time I receive
> the code, it is so buggy, even unusable, lots of segmentation fault
> problems. I have debugging the fs for quite a while. Now it is useful in
> just use as a file system wrapper. It is useful in chroot environments
> and hardlinks aren't available. It wraps a directory and mount to
> another directory on tops of any filesystems.

Is this not essentially what we already have with mount --bind in 2.4?

Oystein

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