File systems

[Theodore Y. Ts'o]

In article <3964 at lynx.UUCP> m5 at lynx.UUCP (Mike McNally) writes:
>Is it true that the root file of a file system can be a regular file?
>It doesn't seem like mkfs can make such a thing, but I can't see anything
>about mount(2) that would disallow it.  If this is true, where's it
>documented?
>
>Mike McNally of Lynx Real-Time Systems

Well, for while at Athena we were running Todd Brunhoff's Remote File
System, which used zero length files as its mountpoints.  (Note: this
is NOT the RFS which most people commonly think of)  We eventually
switched over to NFS, but it CAN be done.
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