Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761062AbYAJPMF (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:12:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759508AbYAJPIW (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:08:22 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:34446 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760628AbYAJPIU (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:08:20 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:08:08 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Erez Zadok Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, hch@infradead.org, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [UNIONFS] 00/29 Unionfs and related patches pre-merge review (v2) Message-ID: <20080110150808.GA32080@infradead.org> References: <11999771882152-git-send-email-ezk@cs.sunysb.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <11999771882152-git-send-email-ezk@cs.sunysb.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 841 Lines: 20 On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 09:59:19AM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote: > > Dear Linus, Al, Christoph, and Andrew, > > As per your request, I'm posting for review the unionfs code (and related > code) that's in my korg tree against mainline (v2.6.24-rc7-71-gfd0b45d). > This is in preparation for merge in 2.6.25. Huh? There's still aboslutely not fix to the underlying problems of the whole idea. I think we made it pretty clear that unionfs is not the way to go, and that we'll get the union mount patches clear once the per-mountpoint r/o and unprivilegued mount patches series are in and stable. -- 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/