On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Tim Nelson wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> 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. > > A small loss of performance would be acceptable. > >> Why are you wanting to do this out of interest? Are you merging >> filesystems >> from multiple servers? > > Yes, multiple exports on multiple servers. The data is read by a legacy > application that does not have a concept of 'multiple data locations' in > which to read data from. :-/ Anything of interest here? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnionFS jh