changes-only filesystem

changes-only filesystem

Baruch Siach baruch at tkos.co.il
Sun Sep 25 14:07:30 IDT 2011


Hi Erez,

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 01:19:18PM +0300, Erez D wrote:
> There used to be a filesystem which one would mount over a read-only
> filesystem, and that filesystem would only hold the changes.
> 
> anyone remembers which filesystem it was ?

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnionFS. This feature is not in the mainline 
Linux kernel yet. See also http://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/, under 
Filesystems/Union.

baruch


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