Jesper, Jan, thanks for your replies. What I had in mind was not a solution to any specific problem, but a filesystem feature.
A feature that could be used anywhere to have a live version of files, a bit of what SQL CREATE VIEW could do for databases. Code files, DNS zones, configuration files, HTML code. We are still dealing with lots of text files today. Sometimes we do tiresome operations on them or have to make up solutions similar to which Jesper had proposed (using cat and updating it, using application level features,etc) > Might be a cute little hack, but I don't think it's a very useful > feature really.. Well, I will give FUSE a shot. However I have a hunch that this type of feature is actually the future of something like filesystem services for userspace. Filesystems providing ways for userspace applications to create temporary files, view, collections based on metadata. But that is completely an other story, I wanted to keep low with ideas. -- Best regards, Maciej
