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From: James Horey <jhorey@cs.unm.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Distributed filesystems:  Plan 9 vs. Linux
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Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 18:56:34 -0700
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> occurred to me that Plan 9 has already solved this problem by being able to
> (securely) mount remote filesystems and do a union on directories.
> (Correct me if I'm wrong, but IIRC creating a file in a unioned folder
> would add the file to the original folder location.)

If I remember my reading of the documentation, I thought that when adding a
file to a unioned directory, that file is placed within the first directory
that was unioned and is writable. Otherwise the write fails completely. Am I
wrong on this or not up to date? If I am wrong, is it now possible to select
which directory you want to place your file into?

-James Horey