From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271055AbTGXDdw (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 23:33:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271066AbTGXDdv (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 23:33:51 -0400 Received: from postman1.arcor-online.net ([151.189.0.187]:48864 "EHLO postman.arcor.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271055AbTGXDdu (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 23:33:50 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Johannes Halmann Reply-To: ahljoh@uni.de To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: directory inclusion in ext2/ext3 Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 05:48:34 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <20030724034833.5D63B371@mendocino> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 03:00:17 +0200 Mike Fedyk wrote: >> my idea of solving this is to have >> an inclusion directive in directory-files... >> >> has nobody ever felt the lack of such functionality?? > What exactly does this help you to do? > What do you want to accomplish? hmm, i have a lot of huge files on different hard drives and wish to access them in a uniform fashion. i would like to sort ALL files in subdirectories but have no need for an LVM, RAID or similar. for example: /mnt/drive1/category1 /mnt/drive1/category2 /mnt/drive2/category1 /mnt/drive2/category2 (the data is so huge, that it is not possible to always merge categories on a single disk!) what i would like to do now is to be able to display all files of "cat1" and "cat2" respectively in "/mnt/union/category1" and "/mnt/union/category2". yet i don't wish to simply link the directories as this would complicate access with growing number of hard drives the data is spread on! it's a bit weird to explain, i hope it's understandable now :-))) Johannes