> Ray Glendenning <ray@hackery.demon.co.uk> writes:
> > Does anyone know what happened to the lofs support which was mentioned a
> > while ago (May 97(ish) I think??). I anyone has the patch which was
> > around (I can't seem to access it) then could they please e-mail it to me.
>
> Using FTPsearch I found
>
> ftp://ftp.torun.pdi.net/pub/Linux/prepatches/lofs-2.0.30.diff
>
> but I don't know how well it applies to 2.0.33 (I haven't tried it out yet).
> Any idea if autofs will use that at some point ?
>
> > I'd be interested in working on this and possibly the tfs layer.
>
> There was also someone working on tmpfs (I assume that's what you mean by tfs),
> but I haven't heard anything about it for a while. Last I heard there were
> problems with "double caching".
>
>
> Stefan
>
tfs is Translucent File System which is a bit like ifs (Inheriting File
System) which could be very handy for building packages (what I want it
for) and for making multi-session CDs.
See ya
Ray Glendenning