[CentOS] "Overlay" Filesystem Mounts?

Ljubomir Ljubojevic office at plnet.rs
Tue Nov 15 17:19:05 UTC 2011


Vreme: 11/15/2011 05:44 PM, Tim Nelson piše:
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> However, it is possible to mount all of the shares to one location, such that there is one 'data' dir, with the combined contents of each of the three shares? So, all shares are mounted at /mnt/s1, and the contents of the multiple data dirs appears in one single data dir?
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> The only time I've seen such functionality is within the XBMC media center application. It allows you to mount multiple network shares, but shows them all in one location as a sort of 'overlay' view. Duplicate directories are shown have their contents merged, but remain intact on the actual shares/filesystem.
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> Does any of this make sense? Is it possible with CentOS (pref. 6) ?
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If nothing else, you could create ans script that would create symlinks 
from all files in those directories into single one. I use that 
technique to create combined repository directory for mrepo.


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