ah loopback mounting .. (not loop device), Solaris does this as so:
/temp/limerick14 on /export/temp read/write on Fri Mar 22 17:22:08 2002
where everything in /export/temp appears in /temp/limerick14,
can't remember if Linux does it or not .. I'm hearing union mounts but I
think these are slightly different .. but may encompass what you want ..
Dave.
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, David Neary wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I have something that isn't necessary, but that I'd *like* to do,
> if possible (I think it should be possible, from my limited
> knowledge of filesystems).
>> I have two directories - one of which is on a filesystem which is
> full, the other which has quite a bit of space - which I would
> like to have appear in one directory transparently. In other
> words, I want to see all the files in /mnt/archive/src (say) when
> I cd into /usr/local/src (say). Different partitions, so hard
> links isn't an option. Symlinks would do the job, but the option
> I'd prefer (if it were possible) would be to have real files in
> the same directory from two different filesystems, transparently.
>> Is it a fool's chase? Is this impossible, or is there some
> funniness that I can do? Or will it be cd $dir1; for i in
> ${dir2}/*; do ln -s $i .; done?
>> Dave.
>>
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