Re: looking for resources for designing loopback filesystem

[Ville Herva]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 08:23:47AM -0700, you [[e-mail]] claimed:
> I'd like to create a filesystem which mirrors another local
> filesystem, but with different permissions, and with some content
> invisible to some users.  Is there a kernel module that does this
> already?  Is the loopback module the one?  If so, where can I learn
> about applying the module to this purpose?

Perhaps you could hack an nfs-server (knfsd or nfsd) to do the permission
tweaks and hiding and then just mount the stuff over to another location
with ordinary nfs client stuff.

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