From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@freenet.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mszeredi@inf.bme.hu,
herbert@13thfloor.at
Subject: Re: unionfs
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 22:37:45 +0800 (WST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0403152236110.19386@raven.themaw.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040315131601.GC16615@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, [iso-8859-1] Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Mon, 15 March 2004 20:47:05 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> > On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, [iso-8859-1] Jörn Engel wrote:
> > >
> > > You could also have some sort of 'hidden symlink', i.e. something that
> > > behaves just like a file but is in fact a link to some other
> > > filesystem. If that other filesystem is not accessable, all
> > > operations return -EIO.
> >
> > Sounds a bit untidy.
>
> If you have a cleaner idea, I'm open for suggestions.
>
> > Has anyone checked http://www.filesystems.org/
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> Looks like an abstraction layer that still assumes a 1:1 mapping
> between filesystems and devices, so it doesn't help. Did I miss
> something?
There was talk on the mailing list that they were close to releasing a
unionfs filesystem for their fistgen generator. But it has been a while
and still nothing.
Ian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-15 14:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 ` Ian Kent [this message]
2004-03-15 16:15 ` unionfs Jörn Engel
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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 ` unionfs Horst von Brand
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
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