From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Terry Barnaby Subject: Inherited Filesystem for Linux Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:37:47 +0100 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40800BDB.3060104@beam.ltd.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from portal.beam.ltd.uk ([62.49.82.227]:7837 "EHLO beam.beamnet") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263483AbUDPQhs (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Apr 2004 12:37:48 -0400 Received: from beam.ltd.uk (beam.beamnet [127.0.0.1]) by beam.beamnet (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i3GGblId022588 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:37:47 +0100 To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org 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. 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 !"