Re: directory inclusion in ext2/ext3

Ihar "Philips" Filipau
2003-07-24T08:21:52Z

Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 10:22:24PM +0200, softpro@gmx.net wrote:
>
>>well, not really. unionfs is close because with a "mount -o bind" and
>>additive mounting my problem would be solved, but what i'm looking for is a
>>very high-level solution. as i said, my idea of solving this is to have an
>>inclusion directive in directory-files...
>>
>>has nobody ever felt the lack of such functionality??
>
> I guess not.
>
> What exactly does this help you to do?
>
> What do you want to accomplish?

How can you make /home & /opt from one fs to appear together with
/usr from another fs?

Symlinks? A lot of distros & apps do not support this because of
references like '../../../bin/echo'.
And sometimes one may need to do references like this. Symlinks do
not help... :-(((