Hello, thank you for your attention! @Peter Teoh: > > But I'm a bit confused about your statement using fuse. > > Well, I have to confess, that I don't really understand what fuse offers, > > but > > FUSE just enable you to create any filesystem at userspace.....thus > doing away with the need for virtual machine like what you are doing > now. Ok - I gonna dig into the docs. > A good example of multi-fs working together is hostfs + > any-filesystem the problem is, I can't find any intros for real beginners like me. > simplified function is in fs/libfs.c (not the same libfs earlier). So then I did not find libfs. I only found libfs.c in the kernel tree - on my debian box libfs stands for font-services and is related to X. @Roberto A. Foglietta: > Why unionfs is not the answer to your needs? Hm, I only scratched the docs of unionfs and aufs a bit - the latter a bit deeper - don't know whether I got it right: I want to "manage" several other filesystems (like unionfs and aufs). The main difference is, I want to change the filesystem during a read or write operation. Change in the meaning of mount/unmount - not just use another pointer. Don't know whether unionfs or aufs support such an operation. I found no hint on that. @Peter Teoh: > not sure my understanding is correct...but the difference is that > Unionfs merge all FS into different directory hierarchy...but Santiago > wanted something secret....just like that of ext3 and > journalling...the file called ".journal" is in fact not visible to > anyone but the ext3 itself. Like in OO - information hiding would be nice, but is not my major interest. But as my teacher used to say: first make it work, ... The usage should be easy and without misunderstanding. Hiding the private/local filesystem could help. My major interest are: - no merging of the used filesystems - change the accessed filesystem during certain operations, or better said accessing several filesystems during read, compareable to md systems. But as I stated in a previous mail - I don't wonna care about physical devices (like md does). I don't know, wether it is possible to realize my idea ... So may be fuse is right for me - I'll gonna give it a try. kind regards Santiago -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
