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* Translucent overmounts
@ 2002-04-16 18:26 Dale Amon
  2002-04-16 21:05 ` Adam Lazur
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dale Amon @ 2002-04-16 18:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

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? 

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* Re: Translucent overmounts
  2002-04-16 18:26 Translucent overmounts Dale Amon
@ 2002-04-16 21:05 ` Adam Lazur
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Adam Lazur @ 2002-04-16 21:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dale Amon, linux-kernel

Dale Amon (amon@vnl.com) said:
> 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? 

What you're talking about is normally called a union mount.

I think I saw somewhere that Al Viro was working on it.

-- 
Adam Lazur, Cluster Monkey

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