From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: unionfs
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 00:20:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200403140421.i2E4KsqA022567@eeyore.valparaiso.cl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Mar 2004 10:33:00 +0800." <Pine.LNX.4.58.0403141032230.4585@raven.themaw.net>
Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> dijo:
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>
> >
> > I'll have to, as this is needed for AVFS. Not unionfs, but something
> > similar, that allows file/directory lookups for special filenames to
> > be redirected to another filesystem.
>
> I have a need for this in autofs4 also.
At least some Unices have context-dependent symlinks, and AFAIR there was
something like this in Linux a _long_ while back (perhaps just in Red Hat,
must have been the second half of the '90s). It was discarded as too much
mess (in kernel, in userspace, and in wetware) for little gain, IIRC.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-14 4:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-08 9:52 unionfs Miklos Szeredi
2004-03-08 16:10 ` unionfs Bernd Schubert
2004-03-09 9:38 ` unionfs Miklos Szeredi
[not found] ` <20040311151343.GA943@escher.cs.wm.edu>
2004-03-11 15:44 ` unionfs Miklos Szeredi
2004-03-14 2:33 ` unionfs Ian Kent
2004-03-14 4:20 ` Horst von Brand [this message]
2004-03-16 12:42 ` unionfs Miklos Szeredi
[not found] ` <20040315214207.GA26615@escher.cs.wm.edu>
2004-03-16 13:43 ` unionfs Miklos Szeredi
2004-03-12 23:37 ` unionfs Herbert Poetzl
2004-03-15 11:35 unionfs Carsten Otte
2004-03-15 12:19 ` unionfs Jörn Engel
2004-03-15 12:47 ` unionfs Ian Kent
2004-03-15 13:16 ` unionfs Jörn Engel
2004-03-15 14:35 ` unionfs Ian Kent
2004-03-15 16:13 ` unionfs Jörn Engel
2004-03-15 17:09 ` unionfs Claudio Martins
2004-03-15 19:22 ` unionfs Horst von Brand
2004-03-15 23:20 ` unionfs Chris Friesen
2004-03-16 16:04 ` unionfs Horst von Brand
2004-03-16 17:31 ` unionfs Jörn Engel
2004-03-16 18:04 ` unionfs Jörn Engel
2004-03-16 19:40 ` unionfs Horst von Brand
2004-03-16 20:45 ` unionfs Jörn Engel
2004-03-16 19:19 ` unionfs Horst von Brand
2004-03-16 20:00 ` unionfs Chris Friesen
2004-03-23 2:38 ` unionfs Robert White
2004-03-15 23:52 ` unionfs Jörn Engel
2004-03-16 16:18 ` unionfs Horst von Brand
2004-03-16 17:10 ` unionfs Jörn Engel
2004-03-19 9:11 ` unionfs Jamie Lokier
2004-03-19 9:42 ` unionfs Jörn Engel
2004-03-19 9:04 ` unionfs Jamie Lokier
2004-03-16 19:03 ` unionfs Andy Isaacson
2004-03-15 14:37 ` unionfs Ian Kent
2004-03-15 16:15 ` unionfs Jörn Engel
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