Re: [GIT PULL -mm] Unionfs/fsstack/eCryptfs updates/cleanups/fixes

From: Al Boldi
Date: Mon Sep 03 2007 - 14:27:25 EST


Erez Zadok wrote:
> Al, we have back-ports of the latest Unionfs to 2.6.{22,21,20,19,18,9},
> all in http://unionfs.filesystems.org/. Before we release any change, we
> test it on all back-ports as well as the latest -rc/-mm code base (takes
> over 24 hours straight to get through all of our regressions :-)

I am impressed, thanks!

It's probably a good idea to always point these backports out, whenever
submitting patches against -mm. Otherwise, people might forget.

> So we'd be happy to submit those patches to the latest stable kernel.
> But, are you talking about VFS/ecryptfs patches (which are in the stable
> kernel), or are you talking about Unionfs (which is not)?

I'm talking about Unionfs, which seems like a rather critical feature to
miss-out on. BTW, did you ever get that oops-on-umount worked out?


Thanks!

--
Al

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