From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:05:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:05:08 -0400 Received: from x-o.clustermonkey.org ([64.242.77.225]:5588 "EHLO x-o.clustermonkey.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:05:07 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:05:06 -0400 From: Adam Lazur To: Dale Amon , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Translucent overmounts Message-ID: <20020416210506.GH23305@clustermonkey.org> In-Reply-To: <20020416182644.GA7427@vnl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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