[CentOS] "Overlay" Filesystem Mounts?

on 11/15/2011 10:48 AM John Hodrien spake the following:
> On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Scott Silva wrote:
>
>> In Microsoft terms that sounds like Distributed file system. I think you can
>> do that under samba...
>
> Is that the same?  I thought DFS was just about effectively having cross
> server symlinks so that one folder could be on one server and another on
> another transparently, but I didn't know it could effectively merge multiple
> folders into one.
>
> jh
I suppose it would have to be more like disparate subfolders shared under one 
root...