Re: Wrapfs a stackable file system

[Alexander Viro]

On 21 Sep 2001, Oystein Viggen wrote:

> * [	David Chow] 
> 
> > The idea is orinigally from FiST, a stackable file system. But the FiST
> > owner Erez seems given up to maintain the project. At the time I receive
> > the code, it is so buggy, even unusable, lots of segmentation fault
> > problems. I have debugging the fs for quite a while. Now it is useful in
> > just use as a file system wrapper. It is useful in chroot environments
> > and hardlinks aren't available. It wraps a directory and mount to
> > another directory on tops of any filesystems.
> 
> Is this not essentially what we already have with mount --bind in 2.4?

Bindings can be used to get the same result, but underlying mechanics is
different.  Wrapfs is not the most interesting application of FiST, so it's 
hardly a surprise...