-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hall, Ken (GTS) wrote: > > Most of the "stateless" implementations I've seen seem to rely on "bind > mounts", but that seems to be a bit of a hack. "Union" mounting, such > as "Unionfs" look like it would be a cleaner approach, but I can't find > out if there's a workable implementation of that. Any ideas? > > I've pulled the unionfs patch, but I'm reluctant to go to the trouble of > maintaining yet another custom kernel module.
These three articles at linux weekly news are a great intro to union filesystems, and the several existing unionfs implementations and their tradeoffs: http://lwn.net/Articles/324291/ http://lwn.net/Articles/325369/ http://lwn.net/Articles/327738/ I've no affiliation with LWN except as a satisfied long term reader and subscriber, but I heartily recommend their content in general. - -- Pat -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoMZ+EACgkQNObCqA8uBsyXYwCfe0GfFqg8CmMelD6iNDwiKb/N smEAoKAl0sgxfPD49hgNZi0DIikYP4z8 =eS+b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
