Create a filesystem backed by files in other filesystems. However, unlike the simple way of allocating a single file and creating and mounting loopback a filesystem within it, let this be backed by multiple files, likely files in several different filesystems mounted within a single directory structure.
The motivation was starting with a bunch of partitions with a little bit of free space in each, wanting to combine all the free space to create the illusion of a single directory with lots of free space.
In addition, let the size of the inner filesystem not need to be chosen a constant at the time of creation. Instead, the space available is simply the sum of the space available in the outer filesystems.
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