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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	apw@canonical.com, nbd@openwrt.org, neilb@suse.de,
	hramrach@centrum.cz, jordipujolp@gmail.com,
	ezk@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu, ricwheeler@gmail.com, dhowells@redhat.com,
	hpj@urpla.net, sedat.dilek@googlemail.com, penberg@kernel.org,
	mszeredi@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] overlay filesystem: request for inclusion
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 00:11:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110804231134.GO2203@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1312462417-8826-1-git-send-email-miklos@szeredi.hu>

On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 02:53:29PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> Al, Linus and all interested parties,
> 
> Here's the latest version of overlayfs.
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs.git overlayfs.v11
> 
> I think it's been merge-ready for some time and has gotten a fair
> amount of attention and testing from various parties.  Yet,
> apparently, it isn't getting closer to being merged.
> 
> There's union-mounts which has a very similar feature set, if a
> completely different implementation, but that also is not being
> considered yet for merge.
> 
> So, Al, can you please share your thougths?

Simple: please, *please* hold back until we have atomic_open mess sorted
out.  I'm fucking sick and tired of playing whack-a-mole in that area -
for nearly three years by now; we fortunately are very close to getting
this shit done right - the main remaining obstacle is ->d_revalidate()
abuse by NFS and I seriously hope to get it over and done with in a week or so.
Once that is done and the damn thing is in #for-next, I'll ping you, dhowells
and probably aufs folks to start sorting this out, so that we would have that
finished before 3.2 opens.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-04 23:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-04 12:53 [PATCH 0/8] overlay filesystem: request for inclusion Miklos Szeredi
2011-08-04 12:53 ` [PATCH 1/8] vfs: add i_op->open() Miklos Szeredi
2011-08-04 12:53 ` [PATCH 2/8] vfs: export do_splice_direct() to modules Miklos Szeredi
2011-08-04 12:53 ` [PATCH 3/8] vfs: introduce clone_private_mount() Miklos Szeredi
2011-08-04 12:53 ` [PATCH 4/8] overlay filesystem Miklos Szeredi
2011-08-04 12:53 ` [PATCH 5/8] overlayfs: add statfs support Miklos Szeredi
2011-08-04 12:53 ` [PATCH 6/8] overlayfs: implement show_options Miklos Szeredi
2011-08-04 12:53 ` [PATCH 7/8] overlay: overlay filesystem documentation Miklos Szeredi
2011-08-04 12:53 ` [PATCH 8/8] fs: limit filesystem stacking depth Miklos Szeredi
2011-08-04 12:58 ` [PATCH 0/8] overlay filesystem: request for inclusion Pekka Enberg
2011-08-04 23:11 ` Al Viro [this message]
2011-08-05  9:11   ` Miklos Szeredi

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