Hi union mounts fans(?), Here's my current union mounts patch set, against 2.6.36-rc5. I'm busy with other things[1] and unlikely to put in significant work on union mounts in the next year. I'm happy to answer questions from anyone else working on them. As always, git trees for the kernel, util-linux, and e2fsprogs, lots of documentation, and LWN articles describing the various problems unioning file systems will encounter are here: http://valerieaurora.org/union/ The devkit linked to from that page includes my Usermode Linux testing environment, including root file system image. The README tells you how to run the test suite automatically (yes, an automated test suite - with Makefile and version control and comments and stuff!). I took a quick look at the current overlayfs patch set, and it's small, clean, and easy to understand. If it does what people need, I say ship it. Thanks to everyone who reviewed and submitted patches for union mounts! -VAL [1] http://adainitiative.org --- Felix Fietkau (2): whiteout: jffs2 whiteout support fallthru: jffs2 fallthru support Jan Blunck (9): VFS: Make lookup_hash() return a struct path autofs4: Save autofs trigger's vfsmount in super block info whiteout/NFSD: Don't return information about whiteouts to userspace whiteout: Add vfs_whiteout() and whiteout inode operation whiteout: Allow removal of a directory with whiteouts whiteout: tmpfs whiteout support union-mount: Introduce MNT_UNION and MS_UNION flags union-mount: Free union stack on removal of topmost dentry from dcache union-mount: Create IS_MNT_UNION() Valerie Aurora (63): VFS: Comment follow_mount() and friends Documentation: Fix trivial typo in filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt whiteout: Define opaque inode flags and operations ext2: Add ext2_dirent_in_use() ext2: Split ext2_add_entry() from ext2_add_link() whiteout: ext2 whiteout support fallthru: Basic fallthru definitions fallthru: ext2 fallthru support fallthru: tmpfs fallthru support VFS: Add hard read-only users count to superblock VFS: Make clone_mnt()/copy_tree()/collect_mounts() return errors VFS: Add CL_NO_SHARED flag to clone_mnt()/copy_tree() VFS: Add CL_NO_SLAVE flag to clone_mnt()/copy_tree() VFS: Add CL_MAKE_HARD_READONLY flag to clone_mnt()/copy_tree() union-mount: Union mounts documentation union-mount: Add CONFIG_UNION_MOUNT option union-mount: Create union_stack structure union-mount: Add two superblock fields for union mounts union-mount: Add union_alloc() union-mount: Add union_find_dir() union-mount: Create d_free_unions() union-mount: Create union_add_dir() union-mount: Add union_create_topmost_dir() union-mount: Create needs_lookup_union() union-mount: Create check_topmost_union_mnt() union-mount: Add clone_union_tree() and put_union_sb() union-mount: Create build_root_union() union-mount: Create prepare_mnt_union() and cleanup_mnt_union() union-mount: Prevent improper union-related remounts union-mount: Prevent topmost file system from being mounted elsewhere union-mount: Prevent bind mounts of union mounts union-mount: Implement union mount union-mount: Temporarily disable some syscalls union-mount: Basic infrastructure of __lookup_union() union-mount: Process negative dentries in __lookup_union() union-mount: Return files found in lower layers in __lookup_union() union-mount: Build union stack in __lookup_union() union-mount: Follow mount in __lookup_union() union-mount: Add lookup_union() union-mount: Add do_lookup_union() wrapper for __lookup_union() union-mount: Call union lookup functions in lookup path union-mount: Create whiteout on unlink() union-mount: Create whiteout on rmdir() union-mount: Set opaque flag on new directories in unioned file systems union-mount: Copy up directory entries on first readdir() union-mount: Add generic_readdir_fallthru() helper fallthru: ext2 support for lookup of d_type/d_ino in fallthrus fallthru: tmpfs support for lookup of d_type/d_ino in fallthrus fallthru: jffs2 support for lookup of d_type/d_ino in fallthrus VFS: Split inode_permission() and create path_permission() VFS: Create user_path_nd() to lookup both parent and target union-mount: In-kernel file copyup routines union-mount: Implement union-aware access()/faccessat() union-mount: Implement union-aware link() union-mount: Implement union-aware rename() union-mount: Implement union-aware writable open() union-mount: Implement union-aware chown() union-mount: Implement union-aware truncate() union-mount: Implement union-aware chmod()/fchmodat() union-mount: Implement union-aware lchown() union-mount: Implement union-aware utimensat() union-mount: Implement union-aware setxattr() union-mount: Implement union-aware lsetxattr() Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt | 4 +- Documentation/filesystems/union-mounts.txt | 751 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 16 +- fs/Kconfig | 13 + fs/Makefile | 1 + fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h | 1 + fs/autofs4/init.c | 11 +- fs/autofs4/root.c | 6 + fs/compat.c | 9 + fs/dcache.c | 32 +- fs/ext2/dir.c | 116 ++++- fs/ext2/ext2.h | 3 + fs/ext2/inode.c | 11 +- fs/ext2/namei.c | 85 +++- fs/ext2/super.c | 6 + fs/jffs2/dir.c | 117 ++++- fs/jffs2/fs.c | 4 + fs/jffs2/super.c | 2 +- fs/libfs.c | 20 +- fs/namei.c | 807 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--- fs/namespace.c | 394 +++++++++++-- fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c | 5 + fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c | 5 + fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c | 4 + fs/open.c | 116 ++++- fs/pnode.c | 5 +- fs/pnode.h | 3 + fs/readdir.c | 18 + fs/super.c | 9 + fs/union.c | 714 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ fs/union.h | 105 ++++ fs/utimes.c | 14 +- fs/xattr.c | 65 ++- include/linux/dcache.h | 37 ++- include/linux/ext2_fs.h | 8 + include/linux/fs.h | 45 ++ include/linux/jffs2.h | 8 + include/linux/mount.h | 4 + include/linux/namei.h | 2 + kernel/audit_tree.c | 10 +- mm/shmem.c | 193 ++++++- 41 files changed, 3551 insertions(+), 228 deletions(-) create mode 100644 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