>> > 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 -- | Software Engineer and Linux/Unix Network Administrator | Alphagate Systems, http://alphagate.hopto.org/ | jengelh's site, http://jengelh.hopto.org/ _______________________________________________ unionfs mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/mailman/listinfo/unionfs
