Yes, at MIT we mount the backup volume as "OldFiles" in the user's
homedir. Causes some confusion but far less than the load of actually
doing tape restores would be...) The actual cloning is *sometimes*
user visible in that starting certain operations will get delayed
until the cloning finishes. Volume handling (well, having a namespace
abstraction that is distinct from the location of storage, and
*migration* in particular) is the main reason I'll probably run
OpenAFS at home once it becomes usable :-)
I think some IBM AIX filesystems have had a similar feature...
