Re: TarFS

Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@freebsd.org> writes:
> > They can be exported, but I'm not sure what you mean by “mounted on a
> > tmpfs”.
> I think he means does it work witg unionfs.

There's no reason why it shouldn't, although I haven't tested it.
Unlike exportability, which requires explicit support in each and every
filesystem, it's handled transparently by VFS.

> Side question: how hard is it to add and offset of tarball mount
> option?

It shouldn't be hard, since all I/O goes through tarfs_io_read(), but
why would you want to?

DES
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