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Re: preferred overlay/union filesystem?



On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote:
> Well, I don't want to keep two separate files (that's what I'm trying to
> get away from).  It seems like the overlay filesystem would be a bit
> cleaner if it can work, but symbolic links elsewhere would be my second
> choice.
>

As a variant of Kushal's suggestion of two symlinks to the same file,
you could have the real file in one place (preferably where it's
written to) and a symlink to it from the other place.

ChrisA


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