On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 15:32:08 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 14:46:13 +0200 > Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I'd like to ask for overlayfs to be merged into 3.1. > > Dumb questions: > > I've never really understood the need for fs overlaying. Who wants it? > What are the use-cases? https://lwn.net/Articles/324291/ I think the strongest use case is that LIVE-DVD's want it to have a write-able root filesystem which is stored on the DVD. > > This sort of thing could be implemented in userspace and wired up via > fuse, I assume. Has that been attempted and why is it inadequate? I think that would be a valid question if the proposal was large and complex. But overlayfs is really quite small and self-contained. NeilBrown -- 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
