Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752509Ab1FPKpe (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:45:34 -0400 Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:55007 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750904Ab1FPKpd (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:45:33 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=SrL/GT95P7V2IaQHU4ha7p42LnJq2/r0QKdEDOA6FZ3gcSYX8iiqPAAzZJOWhtmFgy ARsJPfFsGMsiOxFZzB7D5WYWue7OQxiMiSQCFrU1tgwSHqMuZ9/ZOQ7eIqXPsyHLTbG8 mAfgIFsRf7hCJPZ7nx30br9ng4tvJEoNA0JCw= From: Jordi Pujol To: Erez Zadok Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] overlay filesystem: request for inclusion Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:45:27 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-1.jpp.10-lnet-amd64; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Andrew Morton , Miklos Szeredi , "viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk Viro" , Linus Torvalds , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apw@canonical.com, nbd@openwrt.org, neilb@suse.de, hramrach@centrum.cz, mszeredi@suse.cz, "J. R. Okajima" References: <1306932380-10280-1-git-send-email-miklos@szeredi.hu> <4540f7aa16724111bd792a1d577261c2@HUBCAS1.cs.stonybrook.edu> <954F11FF-339B-48E2-8358-A158DE1E53BC@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> In-Reply-To: <954F11FF-339B-48E2-8358-A158DE1E53BC@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201106161245.28256.jordipujolp@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1977 Lines: 46 A Dijous, 16 de juny de 2011 08:51:39, Erez Zadok va escriure: > (A) USEFULNESS OF UNIONING: > > Unioning is a very useful feature, like an user of union filesystem modules I completely agree with Erez opinions. I will say that Overlayfs responds to the needs of a Live system, both for daily operations and for making a new remaster also. It is true that Overlayfs is a young program, and these last few days have been found some small problems that Miklos has solved promptly. According to developers, it is assumed that there are other issues, such as links, or the modification of the lower branches of filesystems, etc; but they do not appear in a Live system that has been properly prepared taking into account those limitations, already documented. Overlayfs now works correctly, I use it on some computers on a daily basis and have not found any problems. Currently I install all my Linux computers in hard drive copying a file that contains the compressed operating system, then the computer uses an union file system to boot; that has many advantages and some drawbacks, one of these is that the programmer must wait for the corresponding version of the union module while a new version of the kernel has been already released; Overlayfs has greatly simplified source code and an average user can adapt it to a new version making small changes. For this type of installation no more characteristics are needed in Overlayfs, the next step would be to include it in kernel as a staging module. This way people will refine some details of its operation and later maybe could add some other functionality. Thanks, Jordi Pujol Live never ending Tale GNU/Linux Live forever! http://livenet.selfip.com -- 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/