Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757221AbcJNGUB (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Oct 2016 02:20:01 -0400 Received: from mail-qt0-f196.google.com ([209.85.216.196]:34970 "EHLO mail-qt0-f196.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751645AbcJNGTy (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Oct 2016 02:19:54 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: sedat.dilek@gmail.com In-Reply-To: References: <20161013143751.GE31239@veci.piliscsaba.szeredi.hu> From: Sedat Dilek Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 08:19:53 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] overlayfs update for 4.9 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Miklos Szeredi , Al Viro , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-fsdevel , linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org 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: 837 Lines: 24 On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 6:03 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 7:37 AM, Miklos Szeredi wrote: >> >> Please pull from: > > No. [...] > It's too late in the merge window for this to be fixed up any more. > This has been a painful enough merge window for me that I'm not going > to play around with obviously buggy pull requests. > ( Cannot say much to the BROKEN stuff. ) Be gracious/clement/merciful/mild... I expect Miklos will fix that. AFAICS, Linux v4.9 is getting a LTS version. And think of the complex correlations in the (v)fs-trees. Cannot say if there are better strategies to cook all that stuff together. [ It was a pain in the ass to convince responsibles to get OverlayFS upstream. ] - Sedat - P.S.: It's a long time I played with SquashFS/OverlayFS.