Translucent FS

Translucent FS

I personally think this is a terrible way to re-invent roughly the same thing that translucent/overlay/union filesystem mounts would give us.

Translucent filesystems give us COW semantics and have been available on other forms of UNIX for many years (so we can learn from all the mistakes that they've made and be reasonably assured that most of the software that we'd be most likely to use on them has already been adapted to their quirks).

In some implementations you can view each of the layers separately from their union (via different paths/mountpoints).

I think that's a far more fruitful direction to go in this effort.

JimD