Re: Union FS

["Noah Dain" <noahdain@gmail.com>]

On 7/19/06, David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il> wrote:
> This may well be the most useful and powerful "new" puppy around. Used by
> Knoppix and others to "merge" the CD image file system with the operational
> ramdisk FS and with a user's FS (no longer restricted to a /home/user).
> Magic. A normal mount replaces the mount point's visible contents with what
> is being mounted. Union FS merges them!
>
> /usr partition is too full? Move part of it elsewhere and use them both. Want
> inidividual users to have their own software which runs off common libs as
> required? Can do. Separate the "distro" from the "users"? Very nice.
>
> OK. There are "ufs" items on the kernel sources and apt shows union-fs
> packages. How do these relate and what needs be installed to make use of
> this? Configuration? What happens to fs-tab?
>
>
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ufs is the filesystem used by the bsd family of unices.

the unionfs kernel module should be named "unionfs", but it's not in
the kernel yet (debian-stable or vanilla).

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Noah Dain
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