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Re: FTP Q.



Hi, Ariel!

On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 07:06:14PM +0200, you wrote the following:

> You cannot mount a directory over another. You can mount a device over an
> already mounted device (called supermount).
> 
> For example, if you have /dev/hda1 mounted on / , you can mount /dev/hda2
> on /var.

A nice thing that BSD has and Linux doesn't (AFAIK, anyway) is
union_mount, which allows you to mount a device on a direcory,
*retaining* the entries of the directory and just adding the entries
from the filesystem on the device. That should be really neat
(although I've never tried it). Also, I think I read sometime in
Kernel Traffic that someone was to implement that for Linux; does
anyone know what's the status of that?


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