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Date:      Wed, 26 Jan 2000 18:37:15 -0800
From:      "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com>
To:        Gene Harris <zeus@tetronsoftware.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NFS oddity -- Bug or feature? 
Message-ID:  <20133.948940635@monkeys.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 26 Jan 2000 20:27:40 -0600. <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001262026090.5232-100000@tetron02.tetronsoftware.com> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001262026090.5232-100000@tetron02.tetronsoftware.co
m>, you wrote:

>Wow!  I just tried this also, using the equally obtuse mount
>point /usr4.  Did it twice, mount /usr4; mount /usr4.
>Showed up twice, just like yours.  Maybe this is a way to
>get around the 2GB limit on NFS2?  *grin*


Well, ya know, every time I installed FreeBSD from CDROM, it always
told me that it was ``starting up a holographic shell''.  Although this
certainly sounds way cool, I never saw any 3D images jump out at me from
my monitor, so for the longest time I had no idea what this meant.
Finally, burried in some obscure and unhelpful place, I found out about
ALT-F4 and finally got to see the ``holographic'' shell.

Maybe being able to mount more than one remote file system at the exact
same single mount point gives us a ``holographic'' file system!

Way cool.

This could have lots of practical implications.  Think about merging
changes from different source code version of a various software packages.
You could just put the different version on different filesystems, mount
them on top of one another, and then presto!  A fully merged version would
appear on your holographic filesystem!

This could be the best thing since perforated toilet paper!



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