On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 12:54:38AM +1000, Aleksa Sarai wrote: > 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). That's my impression too, which I was attempting to confirm with my mail :-) > 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. I agree, though some evolution during review is inevitable. I just responed to Serge with some of our requirements, if you have some to add I'd love to see them. Thanks, Seth
