Re: [GIT PULL] multi-layer support for overlay filesystem

From: Miklos Szeredi
Date: Wed Feb 18 2015 - 05:58:00 EST


On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:30:39AM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> Al,
>
> Please pull from
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs.git overlayfs-next
>
> This adds support for multiple read-only layers to overlayfs. It also makes the
> writable upper layer optional.
>
> This is a highly requested feature and has been in -next for the last cycle.

Ping.

Not sure whom I should send overlayfs pull requests to. Would direct to Linus
be better?

Thanks,
Miklos


> ---
> Miklos Szeredi (16):
> ovl: check whiteout while reading directory
> ovl: make path-type a bitmap
> ovl: dont replace opaque dir
> ovl: add mutli-layer infrastructure
> ovl: helper to iterate layers
> ovl: multi-layer readdir
> ovl: multi-layer lookup
> ovl: check whiteout on lowest layer as well
> ovl: lookup ENAMETOOLONG on lower means ENOENT
> ovl: allow statfs if no upper layer
> ovl: mount: change order of initialization
> ovl: improve mount helpers
> ovl: make upperdir optional
> ovl: support multiple lower layers
> ovl: add testsuite to docs
> ovl: document lower layer ordering
>
> Seunghun Lee (1):
> ovl: Prevent rw remount when it should be ro mount
>
> hujianyang (5):
> ovl: Cleanup redundant blank lines
> ovl: Use macros to present ovl_xattr
> ovl: Fix kernel panic while mounting overlayfs
> ovl: Fix opaque regression in ovl_lookup
> ovl: discard independent cursor in readdir()
>
> ---
> Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt | 28 ++
> fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c | 5 +-
> fs/overlayfs/dir.c | 28 +-
> fs/overlayfs/inode.c | 12 +-
> fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h | 18 +-
> fs/overlayfs/readdir.c | 181 +++++-----
> fs/overlayfs/super.c | 564 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> 7 files changed, 517 insertions(+), 319 deletions(-)
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