>> > I'm thinking it would be an interesting project to write a FUSE-based (and 
>> > thus
>> > userland) implementation of UnionFS in a higher-level language such as 
>> > Python.
>
>> There are already enough unionfss around for FUSE and (old) LUFS. And so
>> far, I like the fsl unionfs best.
>
>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.

That won't even work with plain filesystems. E.g. / was 1GB, then I would 
certainly have a hard time running `cat /dev/cdrom0 /dev/cdrom1 >/tmp/xxx`.

unionfs is not a RAIF. Though with an extra patch by me, you can make it 
behave like RAIF on a per-file-boundary basis.


Jan Engelhardt
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| Alphagate Systems, http://alphagate.hopto.org/
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