In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jon Masters writes: > 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?
Yes, b/c just like in RAID, you can stripe chunks of individual files across file systems; similarly you can merge statfs(2) contents. > Jon. Erez. _______________________________________________ unionfs mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/mailman/listinfo/unionfs
