Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles)

[Moritz Schulte]

Richard Kreuter <kreuter@ausar.rutgers.edu> writes:

> I don't know much about unionfs in the BSD's; maybe the existing
> functions of unionfs can demonstrate the distinctions between a file
> hierarchy and store containing a filesystem?

Yes.  It's quite clear how shadowfs should work.  There are (or
'should be') some differences to unionfs however.  For example the
limitation of having only one 'upper' fs layer and one 'lower' layer
is not a good thing.  Furthermore the Hurdish shadowfs should take
advantage of the fs-notify feature of existing fs servers, which makes
it possible to keep the in-core constructed shadow-fs in sync with the
underlying filesystems...

                moritz
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