On Sat, 26 August 2006 22:05:21 +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > > So what was the rejecting theme? I don't believe there was one. Jan simply didn't push much, so noone was forced to resist him. And noone else needed union mount enough to push Jan. > > Or you can give Unionfs a try: http://www.unionfs.org > > UnionFS is great, but it incurs additional overhead, as it lives below the > real VFS. What could be really great, is to move some basic functionality > abstractions from UnionFS into VFS proper. Welcome to Jan's work. :) If you want to make this vision happen, one of the missing pieces is a method for copyup, an in-kernel copying routine. Unionfs needs is just the same as Jan's patches do and in the past Linus didn't like my approach of using sendfile for it. You could take a stab at the splice code and see how that can be used for copyup. Jörn -- Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface. -- Doug MacIlroy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
