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From: "Ihar \"Philips\" Filipau" <filia@softhome.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mfedyk@matchmail.com
Subject: Re: directory inclusion in ext2/ext3
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 10:37:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F1F9AD2.1060707@softhome.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cCCR.hN.7@gated-at.bofh.it>

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... :-(((


       reply	other threads:[~2003-07-24  8:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <cypH.5dM.33@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <cCCR.hN.7@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-07-24  8:37   ` Ihar "Philips" Filipau [this message]
2003-07-24  3:48 directory inclusion in ext2/ext3 Johannes Halmann
2003-07-25 17:10 ` Mike Fedyk
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-23 20:22 softpro
2003-07-24  0:54 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-07-24  1:24   ` Grant Miner
2003-07-23 19:36 softpro
2003-07-23 20:04 ` Scott McDermott

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