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* Status of union-mount?
@ 2013-03-12 16:55 Sedat Dilek
  2013-03-12 17:18 ` Mark Knecht
  2013-03-12 17:19 ` David Howells
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Sedat Dilek @ 2013-03-12 16:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Al Viro, David Howells; +Cc: linux-fsdevel, LKML, Christoph Hellwig

Hi,

what's the status of union-mount?
Where does the development happen - in [1]?

Regards,
- Sedat -

[1] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=unionmount

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* Re: Status of union-mount?
  2013-03-12 16:55 Status of union-mount? Sedat Dilek
@ 2013-03-12 17:18 ` Mark Knecht
  2013-03-13  9:53   ` Sedat Dilek
  2013-03-12 17:19 ` David Howells
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Mark Knecht @ 2013-03-12 17:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: sedat.dilek
  Cc: Al Viro, David Howells, linux-fsdevel, LKML, Christoph Hellwig

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> what's the status of union-mount?
> Where does the development happen - in [1]?
>
> Regards,
> - Sedat -
>
> [1] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=unionmount

Sedat,
   Did you look here for info?

http://unionfs.filesystems.org/

Cheers,
Mark

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* Re: Status of union-mount?
  2013-03-12 16:55 Status of union-mount? Sedat Dilek
  2013-03-12 17:18 ` Mark Knecht
@ 2013-03-12 17:19 ` David Howells
  2013-03-13  9:57   ` Sedat Dilek
  2013-03-22  1:38   ` David Howells
  1 sibling, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: David Howells @ 2013-03-12 17:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: sedat.dilek; +Cc: dhowells, Al Viro, linux-fsdevel, LKML, Christoph Hellwig

Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> wrote:

> what's the status of union-mount?

It's being reengineered again to take account of VFS changes that went in in
the last merge window.

> Where does the development happen - in [1]?

On a git tree on my PC - which is occasionally mirrored in [1] when I've got
it working.

David

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* Re: Status of union-mount?
  2013-03-12 17:18 ` Mark Knecht
@ 2013-03-13  9:53   ` Sedat Dilek
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Sedat Dilek @ 2013-03-13  9:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Mark Knecht
  Cc: Al Viro, David Howells, linux-fsdevel, LKML, Christoph Hellwig,
	Erez Zadok

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> what's the status of union-mount?
>> Where does the development happen - in [1]?
>>
>> Regards,
>> - Sedat -
>>
>> [1] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=unionmount
>
> Sedat,
>    Did you look here for info?
>
> http://unionfs.filesystems.org/
>

[ CC Erez ]

Hi,

UnionFS is a different solution than union-mount.
Checking the official GIT repositories, the last commit is from February 2012.
Can't say if the development stopped.

Regards,
- Sedat -

[1] http://git.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/?p=unionfs-latest.git;a=commitdiff;h=6a0a7bb2656c8790d355e2dfcdd13332da319b8f

> Cheers,
> Mark

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* Re: Status of union-mount?
  2013-03-12 17:19 ` David Howells
@ 2013-03-13  9:57   ` Sedat Dilek
  2013-03-22  1:38   ` David Howells
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Sedat Dilek @ 2013-03-13  9:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Howells; +Cc: Al Viro, linux-fsdevel, LKML, Christoph Hellwig

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 6:19 PM, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> what's the status of union-mount?
>
> It's being reengineered again to take account of VFS changes that went in in
> the last merge window.
>

Hmmm, sorry for asking, but when do you plan to offer a "working"
union-mount (u-m)?
What's the status of the user-space tools or are they no more needed?
AFAICS the original authors patched e2fsprogs etc. (see Valerie's old
homepage [1]).

>> Where does the development happen - in [1]?
>
> On a git tree on my PC - which is occasionally mirrored in [1] when I've got
> it working.
>

Development on your local workstation does not look like you do an
open development.
So, it's currently only you doing the work on u-m?

- Sedat -

[1] http://valerieaurora.org/union/

> David

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* Re: Status of union-mount?
  2013-03-12 17:19 ` David Howells
  2013-03-13  9:57   ` Sedat Dilek
@ 2013-03-22  1:38   ` David Howells
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: David Howells @ 2013-03-22  1:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: sedat.dilek; +Cc: dhowells, Al Viro, linux-fsdevel, LKML, Christoph Hellwig

Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmmm, sorry for asking, but when do you plan to offer a "working"
> union-mount (u-m)?

It's a maze of twisty locking problems - some of which also apply to things
like overlayfs:-(

> What's the status of the user-space tools or are they no more needed?

You need to be able to tell mount(2) that you want a union.  This is currently
done with a mount flag, but it might be portable to something in the mount
option string.

> AFAICS the original authors patched e2fsprogs etc. (see Valerie's old
> homepage [1]).

Yeah... I guess fsck programs need to be able to handle whiteout and fallthru
directory entries.

> >> Where does the development happen - in [1]?
> >
> > On a git tree on my PC - which is occasionally mirrored in [1] when I've got
> > it working.
> >
> 
> Development on your local workstation does not look like you do an
> open development.

Excuse me.  But it's quite hard to develop this on a remote git tree.
Further, I prefer not to push partially working stuff to my git tree, lest
someone pull it, try playing with it and have their fs eaten.

If someone wants it, I can mail the partially working stuff to them, but not
many people ask.

> So, it's currently only you doing the work on u-m?

Almost entirely, yes.

David

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