From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ric Wheeler Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] overlay filesystem: request for inclusion Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:27:42 -0400 Message-ID: <4DFA4B1E.5020503@redhat.com> References: <1306932380-10280-1-git-send-email-miklos@szeredi.hu> <20110608153208.dc705cda.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20110609115934.3c53f78f@notabene.brown> <20110608205233.ebfedc4d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <87wrgvb28a.fsf@tucsk.pomaz.szeredi.hu> <20110609123843.77153b27.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <877h8uzmsi.fsf@tucsk.pomaz.szeredi.hu> <21324.1307677721@jrobl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "J. R. Okajima" , Miklos Szeredi , Andrew Morton , NeilBrown , viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apw@canonical.com, nbd@openwrt.org, hramrach@centrum.cz, jordipujolp@gmail.com, ezk@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu, Alexander Viro , Christoph Hellwig To: Francis Moreau , David Howells Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On 06/10/2011 05:31 AM, Francis Moreau wrote: > "J. R. Okajima" writes: > > [...] > >> Aufs was rejected merging because LKML people decided that linux >> mainline will never include the union-type-filesystem but will include >> the union-type-mount (eg. UnionMount). > BTW, what is the current status of the union mount approach ? > > Thanks Val has moved on to other projects, but David Howells has been working to refresh the union mount patches and post them upstream. Al and Christoph have been looking at the patches. I think that it would be good to get those patches out so people can do a full comparison. Thanks! Ric