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Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 11:06:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jaye Mathisen  <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
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Subject: Black-hole FS
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A FS where every stat() fails, every open/mkdir succeeds, and all writes
dump all the data, and all reads return nothing would be really cool.

And if it could be unionized on top of an NFS mounted partition, even
cooler.

Might be a good first project for hacking.