From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Al Viro Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] overlay filesystem: request for inclusion Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 00:11:34 +0100 Message-ID: <20110804231134.GO2203@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <1312462417-8826-1-git-send-email-miklos@szeredi.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 To: Miklos Szeredi Return-path: Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:57309 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752381Ab1HDXLm (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2011 19:11:42 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1312462417-8826-1-git-send-email-miklos@szeredi.hu> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.