On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Tim Nelson wrote:
I'm already doing this. It "works", but is quite messy. I had hoped there would be an actual filesystem merging function that would do this automagically.
Presumably it's be easy enough to knock up with fuse, but there'd be a small performance hit compared to the symlink approach.
Why are you wanting to do this out of interest? Are you merging filesystems from multiple servers?
jh