bionic (7) elektra-mounting.7.gz

NAME

       elektra-mounting - 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.

SEE ALSO

       •   More information about elektra-backends(7) elektra-backends.md

       •   More information about elektra-plugins(7) elektra-plugins.md

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

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

                                                    July 2017                                ELEKTRA-MOUNTING(7)