Re: [9fans] hack for /usr/$user/lib/face

[Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net>]

ovfs was originally meant to allow overlaying of the contents of one
file server's main file system onto another one, but I can see plenty
of other uses for it.

I and everybody I've talked to about this says `Yeah, when I first
heard about Plan 9's binds, I assumed that they were recursive', thus
letting a user customise the system easily and extensively with
something like

	bind -b /usr/$user /

Maybe we're all dolts, but I think that something about the way binds
are explained sets people's expectations to be at odds with the
reality of bind's implementation.  Or maybe we just extrapolate what
appears to be an obvious extension (though of course it isn't, given
the implementation).