From: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Blunck <j.blunck@tu-harburg.de>
Subject: [RFC][PATCH 0/15] VFS based Union Mount
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:44:59 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070417131459.GA4001@in.ibm.com> (raw)
Hi,
Here is an attempt towards vfs based union mount implementation.
Union mount provides the filesytem namespace unification feature.
Unlike the traditional mounts which hide the contents of the mount point,
the union mount presents the merged view of the mount point and the
mounted filesytem.
These patches were originally developed for 2.6.11 by Jan Blunck and
lately we have been working together in taking this forward. The current
patchset applies against 2.6.21-rc6-mm1.
The code is in a highly experimental stage at the moment and the intention
of posting this now is to get some initial feedback about the design
and the future directions about how this should be taken forward.
You can find more details about union mount in the documentation
included in the patchset.
Kindly review and let us know your comments.
Regards,
Bharata.
next reply other threads:[~2007-04-17 13:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-17 13:14 Bharata B Rao [this message]
2007-04-17 13:16 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/15] Add union mount documentation Bharata B Rao
2007-04-17 13:17 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/15] Add a new mount flag (MNT_UNION) for union mount Bharata B Rao
2007-04-17 13:17 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/15] Add the whiteout file type Bharata B Rao
2007-04-17 13:18 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/15] Add config options for union mount Bharata B Rao
2007-04-17 13:19 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/15] Introduce union stack Bharata B Rao
2007-04-17 22:08 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-04-18 3:27 ` Bharata B Rao
2007-04-17 13:20 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/15] Union-mount dentry reference counting Bharata B Rao
2007-04-17 13:20 ` [RFC][PATCH 7/15] Union-mount mounting Bharata B Rao
2007-04-17 13:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 8/15] Union-mount lookup Bharata B Rao
2007-04-17 13:22 ` [RFC][PATCH 9/15] Simple union-mount readdir Bharata B Rao
2007-04-17 13:22 ` [RFC][PATCH 10/15] In-kernel file copy between union mounted filesystems Bharata B Rao
2007-04-17 13:23 ` [RFC][PATCH 11/15] VFS whiteout handling Bharata B Rao
2007-04-17 13:23 ` [RFC][PATCH 12/15] ext2 whiteout support Bharata B Rao
2007-04-17 13:24 ` [RFC][PATCH 13/15] ext3 " Bharata B Rao
2007-04-17 13:24 ` [RFC][PATCH 14/15] tmpfs " Bharata B Rao
2007-04-17 13:25 ` [RFC][PATCH 15/15] Union-mount changes for NFS Bharata B Rao
2007-04-17 14:35 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/15] VFS based Union Mount Shaya Potter
2007-04-17 16:30 ` Bharata B Rao
2007-04-17 16:56 ` Shaya Potter
2007-04-18 7:19 ` Bharata B Rao
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