On 12 April 2011 22:31, Ric Wheeler <ricwheeler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04/12/2011 11:00 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> as some already know the Unionmount VFS union which has been in >> development for some years now is the only True Union (TM) that can be >> accepted into the kernel mainline by the VFS maintainers (for reasons >> of their own which you can surely find if you search the web or ask >> them directly). >> >> The current UnionMount version that can be found here: >> >> >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/val/linux-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/ext2_works >> >> works for me as good as aufs does. That is I can build a live CD using >> this unioning solution and it boots and runs without any apparent >> issues. >> >> There are probably many possible uses of the union which I did not >> test nor did I test long term stability of using the unioned >> filesystem. As far as ephemeral live systems go it works fine for me, >> though. >> >> The issue is that while the code is (nearly) finished it is not yet >> merged into mainline and as I am not familiar with the details of >> ever-changing Linux VFS layer forward-porting this code to current >> kernels is somewhat challenging. >> >> What is the plan with unionmount now? >> >> What is required Âfor it to be merged into mainline? >> >> Thanks >> >> Michal > > Hi Michal, > > People are actively looking to see what union mount (or overlayfs) solution > to pursue. Val has shifted her focus away from kernel hacking these days, > but did refresh her patch set in the last month or so. I am not aware of such refreshed patch set, at least it is not published in her repo. > > Miklos has an overlay file system that has also been posted upstream. I have no idea about his other overlay filesystem either. > > I think that testing like you did and getting more eyes to look at the code > is the next key step for both projects. > Could you provide more details? I am not following the Linux fs development closely. Thanks Michal -- 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
