Open source opens opportunities    Friday, April 22 2005 @ 02:29 AM EDT Contributed by: glosser LinuxWorld takes a look at a new feature in the newly released Knoppix 3.8.1. The latest release of Knoppix (3.8.1) has arrived, and it's worth investigating what it offers the Linux faithful. This release of Knoppix includes UnionFS, a stackable unification file system that merges the updated contents of multiple directories but keeps their original physical content separated. The UnionFS Web site describes the system as "useful for unified source tree management, merged contents of split CD-ROM, merged separate software package directories, data grids and more. UnionFS allows for any mix of read-only and read-write branches, as well as insertion and deletion of branches anywhere in the fan-out. To maintain Unix semantics, UnionFS handles elimination of duplicates, partial-error conditions and more." Full article   [ Views: 1454 ]

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