Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933287Ab3CLWX7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:23:59 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:35566 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932302Ab3CLWX5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:23:57 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:23:50 +0000 From: Al Viro To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Miklos Szeredi , linux-fsdevel , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Robo Bot , Felix Fietkau , Neil Brown , Jordi Pujol , ezk@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu, David Howells , Sedat Dilek , "J. R. Okajima" Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] overlay filesystem: request for inclusion (v16) Message-ID: <20130312222350.GK21522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <1363102908-28956-1-git-send-email-miklos@szeredi.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2059 Lines: 44 On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 02:50:02PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > Al and Linus, > > > > Please consider overlayfs for inclusion into 3.10. > > Yes, I think we should just do it. It's in use, it's pretty small, and > the other alternatives are worse. Let's just plan on getting this > thing done with. > > Al, I realize you may not love this, but can you please give this a > look? People clearly want to use it. In particular the new interfaces, > like the inode ops open function with dentry passed in or whatever? > The changes outside of overlayfs looked fine to me. I'll post a review tonight or tomorrow. FWIW, I was not too happy with it the last time I looked, but I'll obviously need to reread the whole thing. I *have* looked at unionmount lately, and the recent modifications dhowells is doing there are closing most of my problems with that; on the other hand, there's no fundamental reason why both can't get merged. Hell, might as well resurrect aufs, while we are at it... union-like things are actually on top of my "things to deal with this cycle" list, closely folowed by rework of ->readdir(). Miklos, two points: * I would very much prefer to deal with that (as well as unionmount and aufs) as git branches _expected_ to be reordered/rebased/folded/mutilated/etc. while we are sorting all that stuff out. For now, let's base them on -rc1. I expect that vfs.git will grow common stem, with bits and pieces of those guys getting gradually pulled into it, at which point(s) the rest will be rebased. * what Linus just said about bisectablity Oh, and the third one - I still owe you a bottle of your choice for sorting the atomic_open shite out. Is there any chance you'll be able to attend LSFS this year? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/