[ILUG] Merging directories transparently

[kevin lyda]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 02:49:32PM +0000, Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, kevin lyda wrote:
> > *bsd systems have had this for years.  it's called a union mount.
> > man mount_union.  in addition there's a union option to mount.
> could you please blacklist this ferkin persistent *bsd troller?

you make this far too easy...

...but then think of all the extra work he'd have correcting your
"answers."

anyway, the union mount issue comes up from time to time.  *bsd has it,
linux doesn't yet.  it seems to me that it might be a nice thing to add.
it does solve some problems very neatly.  mounting the source from cd,
providing a dir for a union mount and then doing a cvs up is a pretty
bandwidth friendly way to keep a bsd system up to date.

another neat use would be if esat started selling its mirrors on dvd and
then you could rsync the tree based off the dvd.

kevin

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