Union mount
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A union mount is a mount that allows several filesystems to be mounted at one time, appearing to be one filesystem.
Generally one of the filesystems will be mounted read-write, while other filesystems are mounted read-only.
Union mounts are implemented by a union filesystem such as UnionFS and AUFS.
[edit] Bibliography
- Pendry, Jan-Simon; Marshall Kirk McKusick (December 1995). "Union Mounts in 4.4BSD-Lite". Proceedings of the USENIX Technical Conference on UNIX and Advanced Computing Systems: 25–33.
- Wright, Charles P.; Jay Dave, Puja Gupta, Harikesavan Krishnan, Erez Zadok, and Mohammad Nayyer Zubair. "Versatility and Unix Semantics in a Fan-Out Unification File System". Stony Brook University Technical Report FSL-04-01b.