"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know much about union file-systems, but AFAIK they are > different from bind mounts. A bind mount is created by "mount -o > bind /foo /bar" and causes the tree under /foo to be overlayed over > /bar, with the former contents of /bar being hidden. It's like a > regular mount, except that the source is not (a filesystem on) a > block device, but a directory. > > It does sound a bit similar to firmlinks. But firmlinks work on any > kind of type of file (directories, symlinks, ...). I don't know if > this bind file-system can be used across chroots, but firmlinks can.
You can also bind-mount a regular file (and probably other types, I didn't try yet). The only difference to firmlinks is, at it seems, that the destination must already exist and it must be of the same type as the source. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
