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       md_doc_help_elektra-mountingelektra-mounting(7) -- mounting
        - Mounting allegorises a common technique for file systems. File systems on different partitions or
       devices can be added to the currently accessible file system. Mounting is typically used to access data
       from external media. A more advanced use case presents mounting a file system that is optimised for
       specific purposes, for example, one that can handle many small files well. Mounting also allows us to
       access data via network storage. As a result, mounting of file systems has proved to be extremely
       successful.

       Mounting in Elektra specifically allows us to map a part of the global key database to be handled by a
       different storage. A difference to file systems is that key names express what file names express in a
       file system. And instead of file systems writing to block devices, backends writing to key databases are
       mounted into the global key database. Mounting allows multiple backends to deal with configuration at the
       same time. Each of them is responsible for its own subtree of the global key database.

       Mounting works for file systems only if the file system below is accessible and a directory exists at the
       mount point. Elektra does not enforce such restrictions.

       • More information about elektra-backends(7)

       • More information about elektra-plugins(7)

       • The tool for mounting plugins is kdb-mount(1)

       • The plugins are ordered as described in elektra-plugins-ordering(7)