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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 19:26:44 +0100
From: Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com>
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Subject: Translucent overmounts
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It would be useful to take an RO device and overmount (or vice
versa) a ramdisk for temporary data. Say a /etc on CDROM with
an overmounted /etc/mtab...

Is anyone working on such a translucent file system?