> On Jul 21, Rick Hawkins wrote > > which gets to a (non-existant? :) solution to one of my problems. While > > using macbsd, I found a "mount_union" operation, which allowed a second > > file system to be mounted at the same point. This would seem to be > > ideal for networks: mount the server's /usr behind the local, allowing > > it to be searched if there is not a local file. do we have an > > equivalent? > > I vaguely recall an IFS (inheriting file system) patch, that would allow you > to have e.g. /usr on a CD-ROM, and mount another filesystem read-write on > top of it, allowing you to add binaries to /usr/bin. I think amd can do something similar also... but I haven't tried it. Cheers, - Jim
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