Here's another version with the comments addressed plus a small bugfix and some checkpatch cleanups. Changes in v17: - fix wrong return value in a failure path in ovl_link() - fix subjects - use file_inode() and MODULE_ALIAS_FS() - fold bugfix patches - checkpatch cleanups Git tree is here: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs.git overlayfs.current Thanks, Miklos --- Andy Whitcroft (1): overlayfs: add statfs support Erez Zadok (1): overlayfs: implement show_options Miklos Szeredi (6): vfs: add i_op->dentry_open() vfs: export do_splice_direct() to modules vfs: export __inode_permission() to modules vfs: introduce clone_private_mount() overlay filesystem fs: limit filesystem stacking depth Neil Brown (1): overlay: overlay filesystem documentation --- Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 2 + Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt | 199 +++++++++ Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 7 + MAINTAINERS | 7 + fs/Kconfig | 1 + fs/Makefile | 1 + fs/ecryptfs/main.c | 7 + fs/internal.h | 5 - fs/namei.c | 10 +- fs/namespace.c | 18 + fs/open.c | 23 +- fs/overlayfs/Kconfig | 10 + fs/overlayfs/Makefile | 7 + fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c | 385 +++++++++++++++++ fs/overlayfs/dir.c | 605 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ fs/overlayfs/inode.c | 372 +++++++++++++++++ fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h | 70 ++++ fs/overlayfs/readdir.c | 566 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ fs/overlayfs/super.c | 686 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ fs/splice.c | 1 + include/linux/fs.h | 14 + include/linux/mount.h | 3 + 22 files changed, 2989 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt create mode 100644 fs/overlayfs/Kconfig create mode 100644 fs/overlayfs/Makefile create mode 100644 fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c create mode 100644 fs/overlayfs/dir.c create mode 100644 fs/overlayfs/inode.c create mode 100644 fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h create mode 100644 fs/overlayfs/readdir.c create mode 100644 fs/overlayfs/super.c -- 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