Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:29:57 +0900 (WST)
From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
To: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
cc: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: union mount status
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On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Jan Blunck wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 15, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > What is the status of this patchset ?
> > Bharata Rao told me, no consensus was reached yet.
> > After looking at Jan Blunk's ftp server, it looks like the latest 
> > patchset was for 2.6.25-mm1. Is anyone working on this patchset right now ?
> 
> Not that I know of.
> 
> The state is as follows: we (David Woodhouse, Bharata Rao, Erez Zadok and me)
> agreed on a more or less final version of the whiteout patches. I haven't
> posted them yet since I know that Al Viro isn't convinced of the idea that
> they are actaully necessary. My plan was to solve the readdir() issues first,
> because they are the biggest roadblock IMHO. Bharata worked on some glibc
> readdir stuff but I don't know how that went.

I'm trying to work through applying your patches to a current kernel so I 
can have a decent look through them.
Do you have a more recent version of the patches?

What are your current thoughts on the readdir() problem?

Ian

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