Re: [GIT PULL] vfs fixes

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Nov 27 2024 - 11:14:41 EST


On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 at 07:41, Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I was sent a bug fix for the backing file rework that relied on the
> overlayfs pull request. The vfs.fixes branch used an earlier mainline
> commit as base. So I thought how to resolve this and my solution was to
> create a new ovl.fixes branch which contained the overlayfs changes for
> v6.13 and then apply the fix on top of it. That branch was then merged
> into vfs.fixes with an explanation why. Let me know if I should do this
> differently next time.

Thanks, this looks good - exactly like I think it should have been done.

Pulled,
Linus