From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271233AbTGWTZc (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:25:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271235AbTGWTYH (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:24:07 -0400 Received: from postman1.arcor-online.net ([151.189.0.187]:59009 "EHLO postman.arcor.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271233AbTGWTV6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:21:58 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: softpro@gmx.net Reply-To: ahljoh@uni.de To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: directory inclusion in ext2/ext3 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 21:36:44 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <20030723193645.99E3C371@mendocino> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org hi, i have been looking for the possibility to display the contents of several directories in another one, but have so far not found anything suitable. the two possibilites i considered so far were: - soft-linking all files one by one, but then changes in a linked file (renaming, moving, deleting, ...) won't be noticed by the soft-links. - LVM: exactly what i want as functionality but too low-level. i don't need any device merging, striping, mirroring, but just want to be able to link directory-contents. i think it shouldn't be so hard to implement something similar to softlinks in ext2 that allows directories to have something like an include-directive to display contents of other directories as well. hope this ain't too naive :-)) Johannes