AFS has context-dependent symlinks that can also be used for this sort of thing. Havoc On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 23:14 -0400, Roberto Peon wrote: > I sure like the idea of an 'overlay' fs. =) > -Roberto JP > > > On Monday 13 September 2004 09:02 pm, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 01:04 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > > > It looks very promising, and reminds in part of fai, the Debian > > > installer with centralised (and CVS managed) host configuration. Could > > > some parts of fai (like the class based configuration file repository) > > > be taken over? > > > > Right, the difference in the stateless model is that you'd want to fetch > > the config files at runtime and keep them somewhere transient, or assign > > them to a central install rather than a particular computer. > > > > Havoc > >