>  Tue Mar 11 2014 12:17:10 PM CDT from "gregrwm" <tclug1 at whitleymott.net> 
>Subject: Re: [tclug-list] virtual filesystem
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>  interesting, glad to learn of docker.  however, UnionFS, which is used by
>docker, is a perhaps similar concept, but, orthogonal to the issue of
>manifesting a linux filesystem, without using a virtual partition, on top of
>a filesystem that does not satisfy the minimum requirements of a linux
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Were you thinking of something like the old Zipslack?  

http://www.slackware.com/zipslack/  

Patrick does not do it anymore, but it used to be a part of the Slackware
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