On 2/8/06, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

jcm>> None of these seem to handle transparently concatenating
jcm>> files, just filesystems - so you can't create a file on the
jcm>> union which is larger than that supported by the underlying
jcm>> 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`.

Yes, but that wasn't what I was getting at. I want to be able to have
the file split over the underlying filesystems.

> unionfs is not a RAIF.

I know, hence it's not suitable for what I want and why I'm looking at
FUSE for a solution which will need to probably get written.

> Though with an extra patch by me, you can make it
> behave like RAIF on a per-file-boundary basis.

Do you have that patch available?

Jon.

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

Reply via email to