.TH "md_doc_help_elektra-mounting" 3elektra "Sun May 29 2016" "Version 0.8.14" "Elektra" \" -*- nroff -*-
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md_doc_help_elektra-mounting \- elektra-mounting(7) -- mounting 
\fBMounting\fP 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\&.
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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\&.
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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\&.
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More information about \fBelektra-backends(7)\fP
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More information about \fBelektra-plugins(7)\fP
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The tool for mounting plugins is \fBkdb-mount(1)\fP
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The plugins are ordered as described in \fBelektra-plugins-ordering(7)\fP 
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