Re: Variant symlink filesystem

[David Lang]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2016, Cole wrote:

> On 11 March 2016 at 22:24, Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Am 11.03.2016 um 21:22 schrieb Cole:
> > > If I remember correctly, when we were testing the fuse version, we hard coded
> > > the path to see if that solved the problem, and the difference between
> > > the env lookup
> > > code and the hard coded path was almost the same, but substantially slower than
> > > the native file system.
> >
> > And where exactly as the performance problem?
> >
> > Anyway, if you submit your filesystem also provide a decent use case for it. :-)
>
> Thank you, I will do so. One example as a use case could be to allow
> for multiple
> package repositories to exist on a single computer, all in different
> locations, but with
> a fixed path so as not to break the package manager, the correct
> repository then is
> selected based on ENV variable. That way each user could have their own packages
> installed that would be separate from the system packages, and no
> collisions would
> occur.

why would this not be a case to use filesystem namespaces and bind mounts?

David Lang