On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 09:41:51PM -0700, Michael Torrie wrote: > On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 21:47 -0600, Michael Halcrow wrote: > > > > http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/project-unionfs.html > > > > FYI, my own cryptographic filesystem, eCryptfs, is built off of > > Cryptfs, which is instantiated from the same stackable filesystem > > framework that Unionfs is built off of. > > I always thought unionfs was just a way to merge two file systems > together to appear to be one. How does this help with a distributed > file system?
If you require that you can dynamically add more space to a volume by
adding more machines, then Unionfs can be used for that purpose.
Mike
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