On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 02:50:02PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Al and Linus, >> > >> > Please consider overlayfs for inclusion into 3.10. >> >> Yes, I think we should just do it. It's in use, it's pretty small, and >> the other alternatives are worse. Let's just plan on getting this >> thing done with. >> >> Al, I realize you may not love this, but can you please give this a >> look? People clearly want to use it. In particular the new interfaces, >> like the inode ops open function with dentry passed in or whatever? >> The changes outside of overlayfs looked fine to me. > > I'll post a review tonight or tomorrow. FWIW, I was not too happy with > it the last time I looked, but I'll obviously need to reread the whole > thing. > > I *have* looked at unionmount lately, and the recent modifications dhowells > is doing there are closing most of my problems with that; on the other hand, > there's no fundamental reason why both can't get merged. Hell, might as > well resurrect aufs, while we are at it... > > union-like things are actually on top of my "things to deal with this cycle" > list, closely folowed by rework of ->readdir(). > > Miklos, two points: > * I would very much prefer to deal with that (as well as unionmount and > aufs) as git branches _expected_ to be reordered/rebased/folded/mutilated/etc. > while we are sorting all that stuff out. For now, let's base them on -rc1. > I expect that vfs.git will grow common stem, with bits and pieces of those > guys getting gradually pulled into it, at which point(s) the rest will be > rebased. > * what Linus just said about bisectablity > Oh, and the third one - I still owe you a bottle of your choice for sorting > the atomic_open shite out. Is there any chance you'll be able to attend > LSFS this year? > Hi all, I only say: Al-lelujah! Congrats Miklos! - Sedat - > -- > 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 -- 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
