On 2018-06-14, Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I wanted to inquire about the current status of shiftfs and the plans > for it moving forward. We'd like to have this functionality available > for use in lxd, and I'm interesetd in helping with development (or > picking up development if it's stalled). > > To start, is anyone still working on shiftfs or similar functionality? I > haven't found it in any git tree on kernel.org, and as far as mailing > list activity the last submission I can find is [1]. Is there anything > newer than this? James Bottomley demoed the current status of shiftfs at the last Linux Plumbers' Conference. Personally, it looked like some of the motivations behind why we needed a shiftfs (and what it should look like) were lost over time, and the result is that the patchset mutated and has effectively stalled development for over a year (as far as I know it hasn't been posted again in over a year, and nobody is carrying it in their tree). I agree with Serge that if we want to restart its development someone should write down what the requirements and goals are to avoid having a patchset which mutates over many review cycles. -- Aleksa Sarai Senior Software Engineer (Containers) SUSE Linux GmbH <https://www.cyphar.com/>
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