Nicolas Williams <nicolas.willi...@sun.com> wrote:

> There's no unionfs for Solaris.
>
> (For those of you who don't know, unionfs is a BSDism and is a
> pseudo-filesystem which presents the union of two underlying
> filesystems, but with all changes being made only to one of the two
> filesystems.  The idea is that one of the underlying filesystems cannot
> be modified through the union, with all changes made through the union

...and it seems that the ideas for this FS have been taken from TFS 
(Translucent file system) that appeared in Sun OS in 1986 already.

Jörg

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