Re: [PATCH 0/5] hybrid union filesystem prototype

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Monday 2010-08-30 12:18, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>
>> My comment about set-theory unions being commutative set me thinking.  I
>> really don't think "union" is the right name for this thing.  There is
>> nothing about it which really fits that proper definition of a union.
>
>We could call it overlayfs.  People learn new names quickly :)

There is a much larger issue that you should be very well aware aboutÂâ

"The name wanted to be a clever acronym for "Filesystem in
USErspace", but it turned out to be an unfortunate choice. The author
has since vowed never to name a project after a common term, not even
anything found more than a handful of times on Google."

overlayfs already exists. Right next to fuse on sourceforge...


Oh and I what I like to see is support for multiple readonly branches :)
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