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From: Oystein Viggen <oysteivi@tihlde.org>
To: David Chow <davidchow@rcn.com.hk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Wrapfs a stackable file system
Date: 21 Sep 2001 15:25:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <03vgicptfb.fsf@colargol.tihlde.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BAB0858.C22F5177@rcn.com.hk>
In-Reply-To: <3BAB0858.C22F5177@rcn.com.hk> (David Chow's message of "Fri, 21 Sep 2001 17:28:56 +0800")

* [	David Chow] 

> The idea is orinigally from FiST, a stackable file system. But the FiST
> owner Erez seems given up to maintain the project. At the time I receive
> the code, it is so buggy, even unusable, lots of segmentation fault
> problems. I have debugging the fs for quite a while. Now it is useful in
> just use as a file system wrapper. It is useful in chroot environments
> and hardlinks aren't available. It wraps a directory and mount to
> another directory on tops of any filesystems.

Is this not essentially what we already have with mount --bind in 2.4?

Oystein
-- 
When in doubt: Think again.

  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-21 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-21  9:28 Wrapfs a stackable file system David Chow
2001-09-21 13:25 ` Oystein Viggen [this message]
2001-09-21 13:36   ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-21 16:21     ` David Chow
2001-09-20 12:15       ` kratkin

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