From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3EF7A4CF.5060302@cox.net> From: "Kevin P. Fleming" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] read-only media in a LVM? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Mon Jun 23 20:10:01 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Sean P. Kane wrote: > I'd love to have a unionfs, but my understanding is that no such beast > exists for Linux 2.4 currently and won't likely appear until after the > 2.6 release. If this is not the case, I would love to hear about it. Is > there some decent (although maybe beta) support for a unionfs in the 2.5 > kernels? I am using the LVM2 backport to 2.4 currently to test the > device-mapper approach out in the meantime, but if there is a better way > to do it, I'd love to hear about it. > No, this won't appear for 2.4 kernels at any time, I'd wager. However 2.4 kernels support mount --bind just fine, so that may be an option for you if the writable directories in your filesystem can be predetermined.