On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 08:53:12PM -0800, T. Joseph Carter wrote: > >Actually, this has got me thinking about how to better handle things like >swapping disks, root filesystems on removable CDs, etc. > >It seems that the -bind mount option and / being completely virtual (ie, >in the kernel) would be the right way to go about it, but I haven't come >up with a good way to implement it. What's clear is that what I envision >is outside the realm of automounters and traditional UNIX filesystem >methodology. (Which means it'll never happen in Linux..) > >Ah well. =) >
<SouthPark>Plan 9 did it!</SouthPark> On the bright side, Linux has profited from Shameless Ripoff Of Decade-Old Plan 9 Technology before ( /proc, among other things ), so it might become doable. -- "That time in Seattle... was a nightmare. I came out of it dead broke, without a house, without anything except a girlfriend and a knowledge of UNIX." "Well, that's something," Avi says. "Normally those two are mutually exclusive." --Neal Stephenson, "Cryptonomicon" _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
