Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Nov 1999 23:47:46 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: union mount (was Re: Transparent mounts) |
| |
Hi!
> Sorry for bothering the list once again with my humble suggestion but coming > back to ClearCase: why not implement the concept of a view: > > 1. You specify a set of rules which say which file is seen if there is a > conflict. > 2. In the case discussed here you also specify where to write. > > On mount these are read by a daemon and the kernel shovels all file I/O to this > daemon into user-space. The daemon goes through 1 and 2 and does the actual > file I/O.
Sounds like podfuk to me :-). http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/podfuk/podfuk.html. Oh, you'll have to specify your rules in C.
Podfuk might be really usefull for testing if semantics you propose is reasonable, before putting it into kernelspace. Pavel -- I'm really pavel@ucw.cz. Look at http://195.113.31.123/~pavel. Pavel Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please!
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |