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<div class="message_header"><span>Tue Mar 11 2014 12:17:10 PM CDT</span> <span>from "gregrwm" <tclug1@whitleymott.net> </span> <span class="message_subject">Subject: Re: [tclug-list] virtual filesystem</span></div>

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I don't know what it used to be called, but these days I believe it's called Docker[1], which can do essentially what you're asking. :)</div>

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<div>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 filesystem</div>

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<p>Were you thinking of something like the old Zipslack?</p>

<p>http://www.slackware.com/zipslack/</p>

<p>Patrick does not do it anymore, but it used to be a part of the Slackware releases.</p>

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