Re: preferred overlay/union filesystem?
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Kushal Kumaran
<kushal.kumaran+debian@gmail.com> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> If I understand the situation correctly, only one of the locations will
> be accessible at any time. When the user logs in, the original files
> will be hidden under the files provided by the encrypted filesystem.
> So, both files are actually ~/.bogofilter (say), just at different
> times. So you cannot have a symlink from one location to the other.
Ah! Gotcha. Then, yes; symlinks from both to the same destination. Not
sure what a suitable destination is, though.
ChrisA
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