Odd FS idea.

[Kenichi Okuyama]

>>>>> "CRH" == Christopher R Hertel <crh at nts.umn.edu> writes:
CRH> How hard would it be to write an overlay filesystem for Linux?  That is,
CRH> take something that already exists--such as ext2--and add a layer on top  
CRH> that manages such things as ACLs, forks, & other desirable features, and
CRH> then have the OS mount the overlay fs rather than the underlying fs.      

I don't really know how hard it is, but I've once heard that ext3 is
made that way. So, if you search for information about ext3, you
might find the answer.

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Kenichi Okuyama at Tokyo Research Lab, IBM-Japan, Co.