On 13 April 2011 19:26, Ric Wheeler <ricwheeler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04/12/2011 05:36 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> >> On 12 April 2011 22:31, Ric Wheeler<ricwheeler@xxxxxxxxx> Âwrote: >>> >>> 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. >> > > Val posted the refreshed patches with the title on March 22nd: > > http://lwn.net/Articles/435019/ > That article references the same four months old repo which I mentioned at the start of the thread, only a slightly different branch. While it maybe useful for testing unionmount (which I already tried) it is not a patch against current kernel which could be used to build current live images. 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
