On Wednesday, May 17, 2017 5:56:31 PM IST Amir Goldstein wrote: > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 2:42 PM, Chandan Rajendra > <chandan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I am keen on working on overlayfs. It would be very helpful if you could > > provide me a list of Todo items associated with Overlayfs. > > > > This is the TODO list that I maintain on wiki: > https://github.com/amir73il/overlayfs/wiki/Overlayfs-TODO > > It includes at least most of the tasks that are in Miklos' head: > https://marc.info/?l=linux-unionfs&m=149441099931390&w=2 > > My focus right now is all the "non stared" tasks for "same fs" configuration, > aiming for kernel 4.13. > > Is there are specific area of interest for you with overlayfs? > Any specific configuration or use case? Or is the interest purely academic? > > I suppose you are looking to start of with smaller tasks? > > There is actually one task that should be very simple to do and can also > bring large benefit for many users. > > In his pull request for kernel 4.12 Miklos writes: > "The biggest part of this is making st_dev/st_ino on the overlay behave like a > normal filesystem ... future work will move the general case towards more sane > behavior." > https://marc.info/?l=linux-unionfs&m=149442365202823&w=2 > > The work towards constant st_dev/st_ino for the general case is not within my > immediate scope of interest, but it shouldn't be hard. The basic idea was > explained by Miklos here: > https://marc.info/?l=linux-unionfs&m=149259338809700&w=2 > Amir, I will work on this task. Thanks for the guidance. > > > Cheers, > Amir. > > -- chandan -- 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
