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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!sgiblab!sgigate.sgi.com!fido.asd.sgi.com!slovax!lm From: lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: ffs & sunos? Date: 26 Nov 1994 19:42:05 GMT Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 15 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3b832d$e3v@fido.asd.sgi.com> References: <3ahflh$og3@spruce.cic.net> <3ajbo2$kc9@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3avsns$242@fsgi01.fnal.gov> Reply-To: lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com NNTP-Posting-Host: slovax.engr.sgi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Ken Stox (stox@fsgi01.fnal.gov) wrote: : In article <3ajbo2$kc9@fido.asd.sgi.com>, lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy) writes: : |> On the other hand, you could have a lot of fun with the stacking : |> file systems - see usr/src/miscfs/union_fs for example. : Too late, SunOS did this with TFS. Not very well documented, but there : none the less. The 4.4 stuff is far nicer in some ways. It is kernel level, TFS is a single user process. However, the union stuff has no whiteout support so there is no way to do an rm. -- --- Larry McVoy (415) 390-1804 lm@sgi.com