Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758629Ab1FPS3e (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:29:34 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:2203 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757359Ab1FPS3c (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:29:32 -0400 Message-ID: <4DFA4B1E.5020503@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:27:42 -0400 From: Ric Wheeler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110428 Fedora/3.1.10-1.fc15 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Francis Moreau , David Howells CC: "J. R. Okajima" , Miklos Szeredi , Andrew Morton , NeilBrown , 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, hramrach@centrum.cz, jordipujolp@gmail.com, ezk@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu, Alexander Viro , Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] overlay filesystem: request for inclusion References: <1306932380-10280-1-git-send-email-miklos@szeredi.hu> <20110608153208.dc705cda.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20110609115934.3c53f78f@notabene.brown> <20110608205233.ebfedc4d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <87wrgvb28a.fsf@tucsk.pomaz.szeredi.hu> <20110609123843.77153b27.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <877h8uzmsi.fsf@tucsk.pomaz.szeredi.hu> <21324.1307677721@jrobl> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 904 Lines: 28 On 06/10/2011 05:31 AM, Francis Moreau wrote: > "J. R. Okajima" writes: > > [...] > >> Aufs was rejected merging because LKML people decided that linux >> mainline will never include the union-type-filesystem but will include >> the union-type-mount (eg. UnionMount). > BTW, what is the current status of the union mount approach ? > > Thanks Val has moved on to other projects, but David Howells has been working to refresh the union mount patches and post them upstream. Al and Christoph have been looking at the patches. I think that it would be good to get those patches out so people can do a full comparison. Thanks! Ric -- 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/