On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 14:52 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > Valerie Henson is planning to start a project (when she is done with > > current commitments) along the lines of a lightweight stacking layer > > with union support included in the file system. These continuing > > individual efforts are a little disjoint so such a project could be an > > ideal way to define what's needed, what the issues are and how it will > > be done in one place. Hopefully everyone that is keen to see progress in > > this area will want to be involved too, ;) > > Interesting. > > It maybe worth mentioning here that fuse is also a very capable > "stacking layer" and with planned performance improvements it might > become the best option to implement such fs stacks. Yes, also an interesting thought. How would you see fuse fitting into the overall solution of this problem (aka what bits would live in the VFS and what bits would fuse address)? Ian -- 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
