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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] atomic create+open
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 14:48:18 -0400
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Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no,
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On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 07:00:06PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > Secondly, Linux doesn't actually allow bind mounts on top of regular
> > > files.
> > 
> > It does.  Try it.
> 
> The feature is even useful from time to time.

But very limited... the last time I needed something like this, bind
mounts on files were so awkward that I ended up solving the problem in
FUSE instead.  Explanation at:

  http://return.false.org/~drow/fuse/

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC