On 2/5/06, Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jon Masters writes:

> > None of these seem to handle transparently concatenating files, just
> > filesystems - so you can't create a file on the union which is larger
> > than that supported by the underlying fs. In the specific case I'm
> > thinking about involving Linux and MTD backed filesystems, it's a
> > problem - something some folks I know want sorted and something I'm
> > thinking about.

> I'm not sure that Unionfs is the right semantics to give you, say, 64-bit
> files from individual file systems which only support 32 bits.
> Nevertheless, our Redundant Array of File Systems (RAIF) file system does
> support such a feature (as long as the OS natively can export a 64-bit file
> API).

So if you have a bunch of filesystems, each of which is say 1GB and
you need an 8GB filesystem overall, you support creating 8GB files
automatically divided over the 8?

Jon.

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