From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. R. Okajima" Subject: Re: [LSF/MM ATTEND] Stackable Union Filesystem Implementation Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 01:52:59 +0900 Message-ID: <25625.1389113579@jrobl> References: Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Saket Sinha Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Saket Sinha: > 1. VFS-based stacking solution- I would like to cite the work done by > Valerie Aurora was closest. > > 2. Non-VFS-based stacking solution - UnionFS, Aufs and the new Overlay FS Overayfs is essentially a rewrite of UnionMount (implemented in VFS layer), to be a filesystem. They both have several unresolved issues by design "name-based union", and I have pointed out on LKML several times. For example, here is a URL of my last post about it. http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=136310958022160&w=2 > The use case that I am looking from the stackable filesystem is that > of "diskless node handling" (for CERN where it is required to provide > a faster diskless > booting to the Large Hadron Collider Beauty nodes). Just out of curious, I remember a guy in CERN had posted a message to aufs-users ML. http://www.mail-archive.com/aufs-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg04020.html Are you co-working with him? Or CERN totally stopped using aufs? J. R. Okajima -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org