Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756071Ab1FHWdE (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2011 18:33:04 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:54384 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751895Ab1FHWdC (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2011 18:33:02 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 15:32:08 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apw@canonical.com, nbd@openwrt.org, neilb@suse.de, hramrach@centrum.cz, jordipujolp@gmail.com, ezk@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu, mszeredi@suse.cz Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] overlay filesystem: request for inclusion Message-Id: <20110608153208.dc705cda.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1306932380-10280-1-git-send-email-miklos@szeredi.hu> References: <1306932380-10280-1-git-send-email-miklos@szeredi.hu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 630 Lines: 17 On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 14:46:13 +0200 Miklos Szeredi wrote: > I'd like to ask for overlayfs to be merged into 3.1. Dumb questions: I've never really understood the need for fs overlaying. Who wants it? What are the use-cases? This sort of thing could be implemented in userspace and wired up via fuse, I assume. Has that been attempted and why is it inadequate? -- 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/