Re: [PATCH 00/13] overlay filesystem: request for inclusion (v16)

[Sedat Dilek]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 02:50:02PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Al and Linus,
>> >
>> > Please consider overlayfs for inclusion into 3.10.
>>
>> Yes, I think we should just do it. It's in use, it's pretty small, and
>> the other alternatives are worse. Let's just plan on getting this
>> thing done with.
>>
>> Al, I realize you may not love this, but can you please give this a
>> look? People clearly want to use it. In particular the new interfaces,
>> like the inode ops open function with dentry passed in or whatever?
>> The changes outside of overlayfs looked fine to me.
>
> I'll post a review tonight or tomorrow.  FWIW, I was not too happy with
> it the last time I looked, but I'll obviously need to reread the whole
> thing.
>
> I *have* looked at unionmount lately, and the recent modifications dhowells
> is doing there are closing most of my problems with that; on the other hand,
> there's no fundamental reason why both can't get merged.  Hell, might as
> well resurrect aufs, while we are at it...
>
> union-like things are actually on top of my "things to deal with this cycle"
> list, closely folowed by rework of ->readdir().
>
> Miklos, two points:
>         * I would very much prefer to deal with that (as well as unionmount and
> aufs) as git branches _expected_ to be reordered/rebased/folded/mutilated/etc.
> while we are sorting all that stuff out.  For now, let's base them on -rc1.
> I expect that vfs.git will grow common stem, with bits and pieces of those
> guys getting gradually pulled into it, at which point(s) the rest will be
> rebased.
>         * what Linus just said about bisectablity
> Oh, and the third one - I still owe you a bottle of your choice for sorting
> the atomic_open shite out.  Is there any chance you'll be able to attend
> LSFS this year?
>

Hi all,

I only say: Al-lelujah!

Congrats Miklos!

- Sedat -

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