On ??, Miklos Szeredi wrote: On Thursday 2010-09-02 16:25, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> >>There ought to be a reason that other implementations offer >>doing multiple branches with a single vfsmount. > >overdesign However, those implementations offer changing the branch configuration on the fly, e.g. pulling "out" a branch in the middle. With "two-branches only" overlayfs, a multi-branch layout would be multiple vfsmounts describable by something like "(((a b) c) d)". Say you want to remove branch B. (Supposedly) works today in aufs/unionfs. How do you pull it off with overlayfs? You can't umount the (a b) vfsmount because it is used by c. -- 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
