Re: [GIT PULL] overlayfs update for 4.18

From: Al Viro
Date: Sat Jun 09 2018 - 19:55:57 EST


On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 02:42:20PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Hmm.
>
> So I had held off on pulling this in the hope that it would get more comments.
>
> I like most of the vfs-level stuff - it gets rid of some of the
> hackery we had for overlayfs.
>
> It does add some new hackery to replace it (like the file accounting), though.
>
> And Christoph's copmmentary isn't really helping the situation.
> Christoph, I haven't seen the NAK history, can you elaborate?
>
> And Al, can you please take a look?

Will post tonight...