03-20-2001
Yes, I was hoping my casual example (with some humor tossed in) would send the message on how easy and important the concepts of linking in UNIX-like operating systems are to the user. The concept is much more powerful than 'shortcuts' and provides tremendous flexibility.
Super technical description from mib, BTW. The discusion on the difference between i-nodes for hard and sym links was interesting. If all the posts in the forum were this interesting, I would stop reading CNN
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Thanks again!
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copyfs-mount
COPYFS-MOUNT(1) User Commands COPYFS-MOUNT(1)
NAME
copyfs-mount - mounts a versioned file system
SYNOPSIS
copyfs-mount version-directory mount-point
DESCRIPTION
This script lets you mount a CopyFS file system. version-directory is the directory where the files and version information will be stored
by CopyFS.
When using CopyFS for the first time, copyfs-mount will create the required files in the version-directory before running copyfs-daemon.
mount-point is the directory where the copyfs file system will be mounted. This is where the users will have access to the files.
If you want to mount a CopyFS at '/mnt/fs', whose version directory is at /var/versions, you would use:
root@host# copyfs-mount /var/versions /mnt/fs
To unmount it, simply do:
root@host# umount /mnt/fs
As you would do for any other filesystem.
You can also allow an ordinary non-root users to mount and unmount CopyFS filesystems provided that the user is added to the 'fuse' group.
Ordinary users will be able unmount the filesystem, using the fusermount command:
$ fusermount -u mount-point
AUTHORS
CopyFS was created by Thomas Joubert and Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mars-attacks.org>
LINKS
<http://n0x.org/copyfs/> CopyFS web site.
<http://fuse.sourceforge.net/> FUSE - Filesystem in USErspace
SEE ALSO
copyfs(1), copyfs-fversion(1), copyfs-daemon(1), fusermount(1)
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