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Unioning file systems: Architecture, features, and design choices

Unioning file systems: Architecture, features, and design choices

Posted Mar 20, 2009 18:27 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
Parent article: Unioning file systems: Architecture, features, and design choices

Wow, that's a big job.

Has anyone worked on a simpler subset? What about a read-only union of read-only filesystems, without whiteouts?

That would at least buy you the kinds of things that are done with path environment variables (e.g. PATH) today.


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