Re: Inherited Filesystem for Linux

[Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>]

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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