I'd like to propose overlayfs for inclusion into 3.18. Al, would you mind giving it a review? 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 (11): vfs: add i_op->dentry_open() vfs: export do_splice_direct() to modules vfs: export __inode_permission() to modules vfs: introduce clone_private_mount() vfs: export check_sticky() vfs: add whiteout support vfs: add RENAME_WHITEOUT ext4: support RENAME_WHITEOUT shmem: support RENAME_WHITEOUT overlay filesystem fs: limit filesystem stacking depth Neil Brown (1): overlay: overlay filesystem documentation Sedat Dilek (1): vfs: dcache: Export d_ancestor to modules --- Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 2 + Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt | 198 +++++++ Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 7 + MAINTAINERS | 7 + fs/Kconfig | 1 + fs/Makefile | 1 + fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 20 +- fs/dcache.c | 1 + fs/ecryptfs/main.c | 7 + fs/ext4/namei.c | 95 +++- fs/internal.h | 7 - fs/namei.c | 41 +- fs/namespace.c | 27 + fs/open.c | 23 +- fs/overlayfs/Kconfig | 10 + fs/overlayfs/Makefile | 7 + fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c | 431 +++++++++++++++ fs/overlayfs/dir.c | 914 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ fs/overlayfs/inode.c | 408 ++++++++++++++ fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h | 187 +++++++ fs/overlayfs/readdir.c | 518 ++++++++++++++++++ fs/overlayfs/super.c | 762 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ fs/splice.c | 1 + include/linux/fs.h | 37 ++ include/linux/mount.h | 3 + include/uapi/linux/fs.h | 1 + mm/shmem.c | 36 +- 27 files changed, 3694 insertions(+), 58 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