From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Herbert Poetzl Subject: Re: Inherited Filesystem for Linux Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 19:49:29 +0200 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040416174929.GA18647@MAIL.13thfloor.at> References: <40800BDB.3060104@beam.ltd.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from MAIL.13thfloor.at ([212.16.62.51]:26525 "EHLO mail.13thfloor.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263557AbUDPRtb (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:49:31 -0400 To: Terry Barnaby Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40800BDB.3060104@beam.ltd.uk> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org 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 > -- > Dr Terry Barnaby BEAM Ltd > Phone: +44 1454 324512 Northavon Business Center, Dean Rd > Fax: +44 1454 313172 Yate, Bristol, BS37 5NH, UK > Email: terry@beam.ltd.uk Web: www.beam.ltd.uk > BEAM for: Visually Impaired X-Terminals, Parallel Processing, Software > "Tandems are twice the fun !" > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html