Re: Inherited Filesystem for Linux

[Terry Barnaby <terry@beam.ltd.uk>]

Hi Herbert,

Thanks for setting up this Wiki for the template file system
I have added a few bits if that is Ok ?
Some words I notice missing from the Keywords and on the main page
is "Inherited" and "IFS". This is sometimes used for this type of file system.

Cheers

Terry

Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 05:37:47PM +0100, Terry Barnaby wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>Is there or is anyone working on an Inherited file sustem for Linux
>>(2.6.x kernels) ?
>>I have seen very old postings on this issue but nothing recent.
>>
>>If not is there any good documentation on how to implement a kernel
>>filesystem ?
>>
>>My application is a number of diskless nodes that I would like to share
>>a basic file system, but allowing each node to have differing files
>>for configuration differences etc. So any writes made to the
>>Inherited file system would result in a file copy from the underlying file
>>system and a write to the newly copied file.
> 
> 
> maybe this provides a good starting point:
> 
>  http://vserver.13thfloor.at/TBVFS/
> 
> best,
> Herbert
> 
> 
>>Cheers
>>
>>Terry
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