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From: Jeff Sickel <jas@corpus-callosum.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Distributed filesystems:  Plan 9 vs. Linux
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:26:33 -0600
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On Feb 29, 2004, at 1:59 PM, John E. Barham wrote:
...
> (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.)
> ...

When you can look at the web pages again:

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/1/bind

If for some reason you can't go with a Plan 9 solution, you might want
to check out The Handle System (http://www.handle.net/).  Come to think
of it, adding hdl support to Plan 9 might be a nice project on it's
own.

jas