Re: System/Index and ViewFS
Michael Homer <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:11 AM, Trans <[email protected]> wrote: > Reading over ideas for System/Index, particularly > http://lists.gobolinux.org/pipermail/gobolinux-devel/2007-January/001979.html, > I wonder if ViewFS is really necessary. It would be one thing if union > mounts were widely supported across most platforms, but that's not the case. Union mounts are widely supported, particularly when you're building your own platform and have absolute certainty about it. You almost certainly want to include FUSE in your kernel all the time, at least, so you can use one of those implementations if nothing else. They aren't related to ViewFS. ViewFS was an alternative to actual union mounts, as the message you linked says. It never got into a fully workable state so far though. -Michael