On Monday 2010-08-30 12:18, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > >> My comment about set-theory unions being commutative set me thinking. I >> really don't think "union" is the right name for this thing. There is >> nothing about it which really fits that proper definition of a union. > >We could call it overlayfs. People learn new names quickly :) There is a much larger issue that you should be very well aware about — "The name wanted to be a clever acronym for "Filesystem in USErspace", but it turned out to be an unfortunate choice. The author has since vowed never to name a project after a common term, not even anything found more than a handful of times on Google." overlayfs already exists. Right next to fuse on sourceforge... Oh and I what I like to see is support for multiple readonly branches :) -- 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
