Chapman Flack wrote:

> theo borm wrote:
>
>> I hadn't thought of it that way. And I'm not quite sure if it works
>> that way. In fstab you can give -o union to mounts, but this doesn't
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>
> I think -o union is something different entirely. :/

AH, you are right

>> Most usefull behaviour to me would be something like a mount option
>> "-o non-persistent-whiteouts", but I guess this would require one to
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>
> You know, I wonder how many people on this project actually actively
> use the wiki over at onetbsd.org?  One of the things that really seems

you mean http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/04/08/0001.html ?

> to drag it back is the way good ideas go whizzing by in the mailing
> lists, and are never heard from again. I wouldn't be surprised if the
> list archives contain greatly improved layerfs five times over, if there
> were a way to assemble 14 years of mail fragments into a design.

I much prefer mailing lists for this kind of discussion; the're much more
on-topic, and lend themselve much better to having an exchange of ideas
than a wiki where the ideas can get edited away by the first by-passer 
before
anyone else sees them.

I've now aggregated several years worth of tech-kern traffic, and what I
really would like is to be able to download (monthly/yearly?) digests
of all the older traffic (mbox files) so I can also grep my way around
them. I could of course wget all messages from the website and reconstruct
mboxes, but this seems such a waste of time. What is the reason for /not/
providing mbox-digests?

I do see the point in using wiki's for developing and maintaining
documentation. They /can/ be great for that.

>
> -Chap