From: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
To: Dave Schwartz <decebel@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mirror a file system on the fly
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:59:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1124395116.5222.396.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e32b777050818124045dcd1f0@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 12:40, Dave Schwartz wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> Not too sure if this is the right forum to ask this question but since
> my requirement is around linux filesystems, I shall take this liberty
> to post my question.
>
> My requirement is to develop a kernel/user space module to add an
> extension to the shell program environment such that this shell forks
> a mirror look-alike filesystem of the underlying OS to the programs
> run in that particular shell.
u seem to be talking about namespaces, if I get you right.
there is a flag CLONE_NEWNS to the system call 'clone' which does what
u r talking about.
RP
>
>
> Was trying to look thru the FAQ and a few list archives to look for
> ideas around my requirement. The archives were overwhelming.
>
>
> Any ideas/pointers will be a great help,
> Gracias,
> decebel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-18 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-18 19:40 Mirror a file system on the fly Dave Schwartz
2005-08-18 19:46 ` Dave Kleikamp
2005-08-18 19:59 ` Ram Pai [this message]
2005-08-18 20:27 ` Dave Schwartz
2005-08-18 21:03 ` Ram Pai
2005-08-19 15:27 ` Dave Schwartz
2005-08-20 2:42 ` Dave Quigley
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