On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 02:53:29PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > Al, Linus and all interested parties, > > Here's the latest version of overlayfs. > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs.git overlayfs.v11 > > I think it's been merge-ready for some time and has gotten a fair > amount of attention and testing from various parties. Yet, > apparently, it isn't getting closer to being merged. > > There's union-mounts which has a very similar feature set, if a > completely different implementation, but that also is not being > considered yet for merge. > > So, Al, can you please share your thougths? Simple: please, *please* hold back until we have atomic_open mess sorted out. I'm fucking sick and tired of playing whack-a-mole in that area - for nearly three years by now; we fortunately are very close to getting this shit done right - the main remaining obstacle is ->d_revalidate() abuse by NFS and I seriously hope to get it over and done with in a week or so. Once that is done and the damn thing is in #for-next, I'll ping you, dhowells and probably aufs folks to start sorting this out, so that we would have that finished before 3.2 opens. -- 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
