The following is a series of patches related to Unionfs, which include three small VFS/fsstack patches and one eCryptfs patch; the rest are Unionfs patches. The patches here represent several months of work and testing under various conditions, especially low-memory, SMP, and preemption situations with an assortment of lower systems: ext2/3/4, xfs, reiserfs, nfs, jffs2, ramfs, tmpfs, cramfs, and squashfs. You can pull from 'master' branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jsipek/unionfs.git As I already mentioned to Andrew, some of these patches should go into Linus's tree, but the remainder depends on them. Additionally, as Andrew said earlier today, let's figure out whether or not Unionfs gets merged. For Linus: VFS: export release_open_intent symbol VFS/fsstack: remove 3rd argument to fsstack_copy_attr_all VFS/fsstack: cpp endif comments For Andrew: Unionfs: fixed compilation error Unionfs: do not use fsstack_copy_attr_all Unionfs: copyright corrections and updates Unionfs: cpp endif comments Unionfs: cache-coherency - update inode times Unionfs: cache-coherency - dentries Unionfs: cache-coherency - file flush Unionfs: cache-coherency and fixes for unionfs_rename Unionfs: documentation updates Unionfs: copyup updates Unionfs: file_revalidate updates Unionfs: implement f/async Unionfs: minor file_release updates Unionfs: interpose updates Unionfs: unionfs_ioctl bug fixes Unionfs: partial_lookup update Unionfs: lower nameidata support Unionfs: mmap fixes Unionfs: handling lower vfsmount fixes Unionfs: mount-time option parsing fix Unionfs: remove old nfsro option Unionfs: readonly branch test fix Unionfs: minor remount fixes Unionfs: extended attributes fixes Unionfs: use file f_path field Unionfs: assorted comment and style updates Unionfs: update unionfs version number Unionfs: debugging and validation of fan-out invariants Unionfs: unionfs_create rewrite Josef 'Jeff' Sipek, on behalf of the Unionfs team. jsipek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - 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