Translucent overmounts
It would be useful to take an RO device and overmount (or vice versa) a ramdisk for temporary data. Say a /etc on CDROM with an overmounted /etc/mtab...
Is anyone working on such a translucent file system?
Quoted 5 lines · Dale Amon
It would be useful to take an RO device and overmount (or vice versa) a ramdisk for temporary data. Say a /etc on CDROM with an overmounted
/etc/mtab...Is anyone working on such a translucent file system?
What you're talking about is normally called a union mount.
I think I saw somewhere that Al Viro was working on it.
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