Re: A Union of two directories

[Stefan (metze) Metzmacher]

At 10:14 04.02.2003 +0100, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:

At 01:29 04.02.2003 +1100, Arthur Barrett wrote:

Hi All!

I am new to Samba and this group and I have a question...

My company wants to make a "custom" version of Samba which is capable of
creating a "share" which is actually a union of two directories.

ie: instead of the share "\\samba\arthur" being /home/arthur,
we want the share "\\samba\arthur" to be the union of the two directories
/home/common and /home/arthur

Why?  It's all to do with version control and limitations in other software.
The idea is to create a "reserved checkout" in a single directory.  ie: all
the "read only" code is in /home/common and the "checked out" code is in
/home/arthur", but the silly end product software wants all the files in 1
directory (\\samba\arthur).  Oh woe is me!

So my question is: which source code file is the one that actually opens
files in the unix file system ?

Additionally - is anyone else interested in the result ?

yep, it would be fine to have a readonly dir with the samba source tree
and for each machine I connect from a writeable dir where the *.o files and the binaries are stored.

so I can have one source tree and can compile it on different machines

and if I make changes to the source I didn't need to merge them each time to the dir
witch the other machine use.

It would be fine to have config options for match witch files should be taken from with
directory.

something like this:
dir1 path = /home/samba
dir1 mode = readonly
dir1 files = *.c,*.h,configure,Makefile
dir1 exclude files = *.o
dir2 path = /home/%m/samba
dir2 mode = write
dir2 files = *.o
dir2 exclude files = *.c,*.h

and something simular for directories


metze
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