diff --git a/doc/todo/union_mounting.mdwn b/doc/todo/union_mounting.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c42a055021 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/union_mounting.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +It should be possible to union mount annexes. So if multiple drives have +content, an annex mounting them both would have available all the +content from all the drives. + +This could be done by just making .git/annex/KEY link to the actual content +on the mounted annex. + +(Need to make sure the [[copy_tracking|copies]] code does not +confused and think the symlink is a copy of the content.. Also need to make +sure that code that writes to .git/annex does not follow symlinks.))