Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> writes: > First, here's what I'm trying to do: > > I'm using encfs to give myself an encrypted home directory, and I'm > successfully mounting it automatically using pam_mount when I log in. > > My email is processed by a .procmailrc file in my home directory, and > I'm passing the email through bogofilter. So, at present I have a > nearly empty home directory containing .procmailrc and .bogofilter/ > which is accessed when I'm not logged in, and my "real" home directory > which is available when I am logged in. This is, of course, less than > optimal since I have to keep two versions of .procmailrc and > .bogofilter/ in sync. > You could keep the two files outside your home, and create symlinks to them in both the unencrypted and encrypted homes. > I'd like to have an overlay filesystem, so the unencrypted .procmailrc > and .bogofilter are still visible through a "hole" in my encrypted > filesystem. > > I've been looking through the various union and overlay filesystems > (unionfs, unionfs-fuse, aufs, overlayfs....) and (1) I'm not sure which > of them are currently being developed and supported, and (2) it isn't > clear any of them actually do what I want (either I can't just overlay a > new filesystem on top of an existing one, or else the existing one has > to be read-only). > -- regards, kushal
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