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Unioning file systems: Architecture, features, and design choices

Unioning file systems: Architecture, features, and design choices

Posted Mar 26, 2009 21:42 UTC (Thu) by muwlgr (guest, #35359)
Parent article: Unioning file systems: Architecture, features, and design choices

Plan9 has formalized union mount semantics in quite clear and simple but completely non-POSIX way. Overall, it has dropped a lot of POSIX assumptions to reach new levels of cleanness and simplicity. So, some things are quite hard to borrow back from Plan9 into Unix/Linux.

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