From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270518AbTGXIVw (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 04:21:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271148AbTGXIVw (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 04:21:52 -0400 Received: from natsmtp00.webmailer.de ([192.67.198.74]:59884 "EHLO post.webmailer.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270518AbTGXIVv (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 04:21:51 -0400 Message-ID: <3F1F9AD2.1060707@softhome.net> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 10:37:38 +0200 From: "Ihar \"Philips\" Filipau" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: mfedyk@matchmail.com Subject: Re: directory inclusion in ext2/ext3 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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... :-(((