On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:03:36AM +0000, David Lee wrote: > Way, way back in the days of SunOS 4.1.x, Sun had their "translucent" file > service: "tfs". (We never used this; I simply recall its existence.) > Might this model be the sort of thing you are looking for? I see that the > "man" pages for Sun's tfs are still around (I found a copy on the FreeBSD > WWW site).
I think the BSDs still have something of this sort, called unionfs or some such. I think the main time people actually use it is for mounting a source tree from CD as /usr/src to avoid actually copying all of it around. -- Michael Heironimus
