[Borgbackup] Read-only filesystems

Tomasz Melcer liori at exroot.org
Sat Apr 13 04:25:00 EDT 2019


On 12.04.2019 17:01, Sascha Ternes wrote:
> borgfs is a read-only file system. Every time borg opens a repository it
> writes some data (e.g. locks) into it. So you won't be successful
> mounting a borg repo within a borg repo the direct way.

Looks like using some kind of overlayfs/aufs/unionfs on top of the first 
repository would help here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OverlayFS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aufs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnionFS

…whichever is available to you.


-- 
Tomasz Melcer


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