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. _______________________________________________ unionfs mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/mailman/listinfo/unionfs
