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To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.x release question 
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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 09:11:19 +0200
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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In message <3265C883.41C67EA6@whistle.com>, Julian Elischer writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> 
>> In message <32655CDB.59E2B600@whistle.com>, Julian Elischer writes:
>> 
>> >personally I don't think persistance is of any importance
>> >but I hear the crowd yelling for their placebo's so I will do it some
>> >time.. but it tripples the complexity of the filesystem.
>> 
>> That's not true.  Layer it on top of a normal filesystem, use the
>> (empty) files down there to store the modes & ownerships.
>that's what I said..
>it tripples the complexity..

Look at nullfs

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