From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: Overlay Filesystem and SELinux From: Jaspreet Singh Reply-To: jsingh@ensim.com To: Dale Amon Cc: Erich Schubert , nsa In-Reply-To: <20041226125404.GA2459@vnl.com> References: <1098274225.12118.20.camel@jsingh.india.ensim.com> <20041020151031.GB21185@lkcl.net> <20041020174938.GL21185@lkcl.net> <1098887565.1620.15.camel@jsingh.india.ensim.com> <1104022405.29054.7.camel@wintermute.xmldesign.de> <1104050461.14672.6.camel@jsingh> <20041226125404.GA2459@vnl.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 00:09:10 +0530 Message-Id: <1104086350.19031.13.camel@jsingh> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov Hi, On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 12:54 +0000, Dale Amon wrote: > > That project is now .. not maintained .. and now I am involved in a much > > more sophisticated implementation called - "unionfs" . Check this link - > > www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/project-unionfs.html > > > > Unionfs was initially only for 2.4 kernel, but i recently ported it to > > 2.6. The port is not official yet. But, its working. > > Brilliant. I have been waiting for this quite literally > for years. What are the chances it will go into the > main kernel tree? Thanx :) , Yes the official maintainers can answer that question better. For all i know unionfs is been publicized at lkml and there are talks for the same. Till recently, it just seemed to be an academic project. But now it has gained momentum. I have used and extended 3 overlay file-systems .. and this one seemed to be most promising and stable. It has some very good features like - adding/removing branches (i.e directories ) from a union. But, i am just a fresh grad .. probably people out there and judge this file-system better. Currently my port works on 2.6.0 -to- 2.6.9 kernels .. but maintainers are reviewing it .. would work on it. Thanx, Jaspreet -- -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.