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Re: Bug#297606: ITP: unionfs -- Stackable Unification File System



On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 07:15:51PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org>
> 
> * Package name    : unionfs
>   Version         : 1.0.9
>   Upstream Author : Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu> and others
> * URL             : http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/project-unionfs.html
> * License         : GPL
>   Description     : Stackable Unification File System
> 
>  unionfs is a Linux kernel driver that provides a unification file system
>  which can appear to merge the contents of several directories
>  (branches), while keeping their physical content separate.
>  .
>  Unionfs is useful for unified source tree management, merged contents
>  of split CD-ROM, merged separate software package directories, data
>  grids, and more. Unionfs allows any mix of read-only and
>  read-write branches, as well as insertion and deletion of branches
>  anywhere in the fan-out.

All I have to say, having used union FS stuff extensively on NetBSD, is:

Yay!
-- 
Joel Aelwyn <fenton@debian.org>                                       ,''`.
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