[ILUG] Merging directories transparently

[Paul Jakma]

On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Philip Reynolds wrote:

> mount -t nfs 127.0.0.1:/mnt/archive/src /usr/local/src

why go to all that bother, linux (2.4 at least) allows you to mount 
directories on other directories (mount --bind):

[root at fogarty root]# mkdir /var/tmp/test
[root at fogarty root]# touch /var/tmp/test/foo
[root at fogarty root]# ls /var/tmp/test/foo 
/var/tmp/test/foo
[root at fogarty root]# mkdir /tmp/test/
[root at fogarty root]# mount --bind /var/tmp/test/ /tmp/test/
[root at fogarty root]# ls /tmp/test/
foo

tada..

regards,
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