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From: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@intracom.gr>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] mini_fo-0.6.0 overlay file system
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Markus Klotzbuecher wrote:
> mini_fo is a virtual kernel filesystem that can make read-only file
> systems writable. This is done by redirecting modifying operations to
> a writeable location called "storage directory", and leaving the
> original data in the "base directory" untouched. When reading, the
> file system merges the modifed and original data so that only the
> newest versions will appear. This occurs transparently to the user,
> who can access the data like on any other read-write file system.
> 
> mini_fo was originally developed for use in embedded systems, and
> therefore is lightweight in terms of module size (~50K), memory usage
> and storage usage. Nevertheless it has proved usefull for other
> projects such as live cds or for sandboxing and testing.
> 
> For more information and download of the sources visit the project
> page:
> 
> http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/Know/MiniFOHome
> 
> ChangeLog for mini_fo-0-6-0:
>    - support for 2.4 and 2.6 kernels.
>    - mini_fo now implements all file system operations.
>    - many bugfixes and code cleanup.
> 
> 
> Markus Klotzbuecher

Hi Markus.

This sounds interesting.

Could you post the patches in the list so that we can discuss
them properly?

Regards

Pantelis