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From: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>,
	Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] VFS: FS CoW using redirection
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:05:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060823180552.GC28873@filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060823172402.GC15851@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>

On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 07:24:02PM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Sun, 9 July 2006 15:50:36 +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
> > 
> > Consider something simple like this:
> > 
> > VFS - anyFS1 (r/w) used normally, unless ENotFound, then redirect read to
> >     \              anyFS2, or CoW from anyFS2 to anyFS1.
> >       anyFS2 (r/o) used normally.
> 
> That concept is known as union mount.  Jan Blunck did some patches in
> that direction, you might be able to find them in the archives.  If
> not, just send him a mail.

Or you can give Unionfs a try: http://www.unionfs.org

Josef "Jeff" Sipek.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-23 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-08 17:41 [RFC] VFS: FS CoW using redirection Al Boldi
2006-07-08 18:32 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2006-07-09 12:50   ` Al Boldi
2006-07-11 19:57     ` Al Boldi
2006-08-23 17:24     ` Jörn Engel
2006-08-23 18:05       ` Josef Sipek [this message]
2006-08-26 19:05         ` Al Boldi
2006-08-27 17:15           ` Jörn Engel
2006-08-28  2:10             ` Josef Sipek
2006-07-09  2:53 ` Shaya Potter

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