stackable file system ? mount many folders into one for read

syadnom · Guru Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 531

I'm looking for a way to present a single file heirachy for the people on my network to "READ"

fir instance
networkshare
-/mov
-/pics
-/games
-/shareware

etc..

but i want to mount multiple folders into one.

/share/movies/ + /scsi/movies/ + /mnt/cdr/movies = /networkshare/movies

I know this is a nightmare for "WRITE" access, but i just want "READ" access for the network.

Also, this would extend into -
/home/usernameA/movies + /home/usernameB/movies = /networkshare/movies

so that users can put movies in their home directories and they will be available to all network users.

any ideas??

syadnom · Guru Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 531

I would also like to have this available on kernel 2.6, but 2.4 is OK.

It also should be exportable via samba. I can get around it if it's not, but its not simple, and not clean.

Evangelion · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 12:38 pm Post subject:

Now, correct me if I'm rong, but isn't that basically an union-filesystem? Linux does not support it, Plan9 does and maybe some of the *BSD's.
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rpodgorny · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 11:17 pm Post subject:

See http://podgorny.cz/unionfs-fuse/