On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 03:28:03PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > So from mainline we need two things: > > - when mounting distinguish between old and new format. > > - userspace can detect which formats are supported by the kernel. > > If we'd have a different filesystem type for the old and new formats, > then that would solve both (checking /proc/filesystems would indicate > which one is supported). > > Unfortunately that would mean having to change "overlayfs" type to > something else in 3.18. Question is, is there some sane name which > would fit? "overlayfs2" is perhaps the best, but I'm not overly > enthusiastic about it. > > Any other ideas? Umm... What does the old one do when it sees workdir=<something> in the options? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-unionfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
