Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754877Ab3CMJml (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Mar 2013 05:42:41 -0400 Received: from mail-we0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:47198 "EHLO mail-we0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753833Ab3CMJmj (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Mar 2013 05:42:39 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: sedat.dilek@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20130312222350.GK21522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <1363102908-28956-1-git-send-email-miklos@szeredi.hu> <20130312222350.GK21522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:42:37 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] overlay filesystem: request for inclusion (v16) From: Sedat Dilek To: Al Viro , Miklos Szeredi Cc: Linus Torvalds , 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" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2475 Lines: 58 On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Al Viro wrote: > 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? > Hi all, I only say: Al-lelujah! Congrats Miklos! - Sedat - > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- 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/