On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 07:52:00AM -0800, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > > Please write your stacked features as kernel drivers. > > Could you explain in more detail? I think I don't understand either the > why, the how, or what you mean with driver in this context (not sure > which one it is). > > > (I'm not the original submitter but interested in this) If someone is doing stacked pass through I/O, which basically is some form of unioning or file hiding it should be using overlayfs or a new kernel stackable file system. That's not to say it could be prototyped entirely in userspace, but it's not something we should add any bypasses for. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
