Re: kernel-managed /dev, revisited

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 13 Jul 1997 20:09:03 +0100 (BST)

> > mount usr /usr
> > mount MyToys /opt
> >
>
> Thid wouldn't be terribly hard to do. Well, not TERRIBLY hard. :)

It wants to be done via user space except for rootfs though. I want to be
able to do stuff like

mount alan_home_dir:
alan_home_dir: not found locally.
alan_home_dir: found on NFS server backupbox:
alan_home_dir: volume is password keyed
password:

None of that is hard in user space...

Alan