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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>,
	Nikhilesh Reddy <reddyn-sgV2jX0FEOL9JmXXK+q4OQ@public.gmane.org>,
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	Theodore Ts'o <tytso-3s7WtUTddSA@public.gmane.org>,
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	Antonio SJ Musumeci
	<trapexit-wGTF+nt6ur047o9RxwvyTQ@public.gmane.org>,
	sven.utcke-Mmb7MZpHnFY@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 01:29:49 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160115092949.GA11468@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mvs8qhun.fsf-Zv899e0YUSYPWKMTL/zdXNi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 07:52:00AM -0800, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> > Please write your stacked features as kernel drivers.
> 
> Could you explain in more detail? I think I don't understand either the
> why, the how, or what you mean with driver in this context (not sure
> which one it is). 
> 
> 
> (I'm not the original submitter but interested in this)


If someone is doing stacked pass through I/O, which basically is some
form of unioning or file hiding it should be using overlayfs or a new
kernel stackable file system.  That's not to say it could be prototyped
entirely in userspace, but it's not something we should add any bypasses
for.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-15  9:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <565394BE.4040506@codeaurora.org>
     [not found] ` <565394BE.4040506-sgV2jX0FEOL9JmXXK+q4OQ@public.gmane.org>
2016-01-13 23:53   ` [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O Nikhilesh Reddy
2016-01-14  4:57     ` Greg KH
2016-01-14 18:57       ` Nikhilesh Reddy
     [not found]         ` <5697EF97.9020800-sgV2jX0FEOL9JmXXK+q4OQ@public.gmane.org>
2016-01-14 19:19           ` Linus Torvalds
     [not found]             ` <CA+55aFwxaU0Y_UxyKFv6WaYsPWDDzZG-rhVtMuLSPcJ0WLLw2A-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2016-01-15 16:31               ` Andy Lutomirski
     [not found]                 ` <CALCETrWNQ9ytw1bCOOjFJRstauYc6DocQAmZCF61CErAJ5BF2g-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2016-01-15 17:37                   ` Antonio SJ Musumeci
     [not found]                     ` <CAB3-ZyT+xcU-0BnNvq-+GsDe6W8=MCWwxguS-+KQ39gajmM5pw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2016-01-15 17:51                       ` Nikolaus Rath
2016-01-15 19:29                         ` Nikhilesh Reddy
     [not found]                           ` <56994884.9060002-sgV2jX0FEOL9JmXXK+q4OQ@public.gmane.org>
2016-01-15 21:38                             ` Nikolaus Rath
2016-01-15 21:43                           ` Linus Torvalds
2016-01-15 21:46                             ` Andy Lutomirski
     [not found]                               ` <CALCETrUA2veiBYYbN1hCSkHxBFyDpe3b=PXg=j53_ZuQBt1FUw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2016-01-15 21:53                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-01-19  2:57                                   ` Nikhilesh Reddy
     [not found]                                     ` <569DA62B.7070701-sgV2jX0FEOL9JmXXK+q4OQ@public.gmane.org>
2016-01-20 23:24                                       ` Nikhilesh Reddy
2016-01-15 21:56                           ` [fuse-devel] " Hans Beckerus
     [not found]     ` <5696E366.2080605-sgV2jX0FEOL9JmXXK+q4OQ@public.gmane.org>
2016-01-14  8:25       ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-01-14 15:52         ` Nikolaus Rath
     [not found]           ` <87mvs8qhun.fsf-Zv899e0YUSYPWKMTL/zdXNi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2016-01-15  9:29             ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-01-19  3:07       ` Jann Horn
     [not found]         ` <CAK9i0=ojVmbuDiFXY_sHA12vTWgz9aKwEQuZmmYtUka3zqr=hg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2016-01-20 23:07           ` Nikhilesh Reddy

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