From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 26 18:38: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monkeys.com (i180.value.net [206.14.136.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E800151BE for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 18:38:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rfg@monkeys.com) Received: from monkeys.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by monkeys.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA20135; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 18:37:15 -0800 (PST) To: Gene Harris Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS oddity -- Bug or feature? In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 26 Jan 2000 20:27:40 -0600. Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 18:37:15 -0800 Message-ID: <20133.948940635@monkeys.com> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , 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! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message