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Re: mount_overlay info



On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 01:34:20PM -0600, David Dudley wrote:
> Can anyone give me some information on what capability this command
> provides?

It is the simplest layered file system. The overlay interposes itself 
between the underlying fs and new access.

Since the overlay just passes commands along, it does not change behavior. 
Except that you could probably have a read-only overlay on top of a 
read-write file system and NFS export the read-only overlay.

It is mainly intended to serve as a prototype for new layered file 
systems.

Take care,

Bill

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