Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:42:28 -0700 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: Larger dev_t |
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H. Peter Anvin writes: > Dan Hollis wrote: > > > > On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > c) Make sure chown/chmod/link/symlink/rename/rm etc does the right thing, > > > without the need for "tar hacks" or anything equivalently gross. > > > > write-through filesystem, like overlaying a r/w ext2 on top of an iso9660 > > fs. > > This is not necessarily the right way to do it, since it may not > carry with it the appropriate information. Richard, I belive, was > planning to implement this using devfsd.
I did, back in April 2000. I'm fairly sure I told you at OLS :-)
Create and change events can be passed to devfsd and this may be recorded in a filesystem.
Regards,
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