On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 11:28:46PM -0400, Cary O'Brien wrote:
> (from memory...)
>
> Sun OS 4.1 had a thing called a 'Translucent File System'. It somehow
> let you mount one file system on top of another, so you would see the underlying
> file system unless you changed a file, in which case the changed file would
> be stored in the 'top' file system. I.E. the 'top' file system would have
> changes. Or something like that. So if you could somehow mount a ramdisk
> on top of a read-only root partition...
Your memory is correct, and this has been implemented for Linux, but I
don't have a pointer handy.
Cheers,
-- jra
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