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"
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