Re: directory inclusion in ext2/ext3

[Johannes Halmann <softpro@gmx.net>]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 03:00:17 +0200 Mike Fedyk wrote:
>> my idea of solving this is to have
>> an inclusion directive in directory-files...
>> 
>> has nobody ever felt the lack of such functionality??

> What exactly does this help you to do?
> What do you want to accomplish?

hmm, i have a lot of huge files on different hard drives and wish to access 
them in a uniform fashion. i would like to sort ALL files in subdirectories 
but have no need for an LVM, RAID or similar. for example:

/mnt/drive1/category1
/mnt/drive1/category2
/mnt/drive2/category1
/mnt/drive2/category2

(the data is so huge, that it is not possible to always merge categories on a 
single disk!)
what i would like to do now is to be able to display all files of "cat1" and 
"cat2" respectively in "/mnt/union/category1" and "/mnt/union/category2". yet 
i don't wish to simply link the directories as this would complicate access 
with growing number of hard drives the data is spread on!

it's a bit weird to explain, i hope it's understandable now :-)))

Johannes