Re: [PATCH 0/8] overlay filesystem: request for inclusion

Pekka Enberg
2011-08-04T12:59:00Z

Hi Miklos,

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> 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.

I'm not commenting on the code but as I've mentioned privately, we're
really interested in seeing this merged for tools/kvm. We've been able
to use overlayfs to turn host filesystem into copy-on-write guest
image that's booted through 9p. So if overlayfs is merged, we'll
definitely use it.

Pekka