Re: fs questions

[Neal H Walfield <neal@walfield.org>]

Hi,

On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 08:08:56PM +0200, Zsombor Gergely wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 10:59:10AM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote:
> > shadowfs is not yet implemented.  Currently, /usr is a link to the current
> 
> Not for any single OS?

The only implementation that I know of is in Thomas's head ;).
(none that I know of).
Not that I know of.

> 
> > directory, so if you do ls /usr/bin you are really seeing /bin.
> 
> I know. I just wondered how it _will_ and _could_ work when it will... :)

This is code waiting to be written.  If you have ideas, and some ambition
to get it done, feel free to hack some code out.  If you do, talk to Thomas.

Here a few few good papers that you may want to take a look at:
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd-paper.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/reference-manual.html

-Neal

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