On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:53:45AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 07:03:35PM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote: > > However, I must caution that a file system like ecryptfs is very different > > from Unionfs, the latter being a fan-out file system---and both have very > > different goals. The common code between the two file systems, at this > > stage, is not much (and we've already extracted some of it into the "stackfs > > layer"). > > I think that's an very important point. We have a chance to get that > non-fanout filesystems right quite easily - something I wished that would > have been done before the ecryptfs merge - while getting fan-out stackable > filesystems is a really hard task. Hard or harder? > In addition to that I know exactly > one fan-out stackable filesystem that is posisbly useful, which is unionfs. RAIF is another fan-out stackable fs with much more complex logic. (Just the other day, I saw an announcement for a new version on fsdevel.) Josef "Jeff" Sipek. -- Evolution, n.: A hypothetical process whereby infinitely improbable events occur with alarming frequency, order arises from chaos, and no one is given credit. - 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
