Greetings-

Is it possible to mount multiple block devices (or network devices over 
NFS/CIFS) such that the contents of the mounts appear in one location? For 
example, lets say I have these shares available:

\\server1\volume1\
\\server1\volume2\
\\server1\volume3\

All three contain a directory called data, with different subdirectories. 
Typically, these would be mounted like so:

mount \\server1\volume1\ /mnt/s1v1
mount \\server1\volume2\ /mnt/s1v2
mount \\server1\volume3\ /mnt/s1v3

And, each would have a corresponding 'data' dir at those mounts:

/mnt/s1v1/data
/mnt/s1v2/data
/mnt/s1v3/data

However, it is possible to mount all of the shares to one location, such that 
there is one 'data' dir, with the combined contents of each of the three 
shares? So, all shares are mounted at /mnt/s1, and the contents of the multiple 
data dirs appears in one single data dir?

The only time I've seen such functionality is within the XBMC media center 
application. It allows you to mount multiple network shares, but shows them all 
in one location as a sort of 'overlay' view. Duplicate directories are shown 
have their contents merged, but remain intact on the actual shares/filesystem.

Does any of this make sense? Is it possible with CentOS (pref. 6) ?

--Tim
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