Re: [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Jan 14 2016 - 14:19:37 EST


On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Nikhilesh Reddy <reddyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> *I will send out a properly formatted patch shortly.*

So before you do that, can you explain in what cases fuse just wants
to pass through the IO?

Why aren't such cases just using unionfs or something?

In other words, I think that patch needs an explanation for the
*reason* for the new functionality.

Linus