From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] AUFS: merging/stacking several filesystems Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 21:54:58 -0700 Message-ID: <20080511215458.44021c4a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <7016.1207113135@jrobl> <8157.1207205925@jrobl> <9316.1210567436@jrobl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:46071 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758425AbYELEzD (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2008 00:55:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <9316.1210567436@jrobl> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 12 May 2008 13:43:56 +0900 hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp wrote: > > > > Here are some of them and the intention of this post is to get some > > > initial feedback about its design. > ::: > > I have posted some of ideas, design or approaches which are implemented > in AUFS stackable filesystem about a month before. > While I have a plan to implement some more features still, the current > AUFS status is better and used many people for years. > Since I have received requests to submit AUFS into the mainline more > than once, Now I'd ask you to include AUFS into mainline. > But the source is large (see below). > Should I send all of these files to this ML, or ask you to download them > from CVS? > If AUFS was much smaller, I would send files here without asking. > Yup, prepare a patch series and email them out. cc linux-kernel too. > ... > > 0. Introduction > ---------------------------------------- > In the early days, aufs was entirely re-designed and re-implemented > Unionfs Version 1.x series. After many original ideas, approaches, > improvements and implementations, it becomes totally different from > Unionfs while keeping the basic features. > Recently, Unionfs Version 2.x series begin taking some of same > approaches to aufs's. > Unionfs is being developed by Professor Erez Zadok at Stony Brook > University and his team. > If you don't know Unionfs, I recommend you becoming familiar with it > before using aufs. Some terminology in aufs follows Unionfs's. We'd be interested in hearing if aufs addresses any of the shortcomings which reviewers identified in unionfs and if so, how. > CVS tree is in aufs project of SourceForge. Nobody is set up to handle cvs, sorry. It would be worth the time to migrate it to git.