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From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
To: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: union mount status
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:21:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48F650E3.8040805@fr.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081015191144.GJ29067@bolzano.suse.de>

Jan Blunck wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> What is the status of this patchset ?
>> Bharata Rao told me, no consensus was reached yet.
>> After looking at Jan Blunk's ftp server, it looks like the latest 
>> patchset was for 2.6.25-mm1. Is anyone working on this patchset right now ?
> 
> Not that I know of.
> 
> The state is as follows: we (David Woodhouse, Bharata Rao, Erez Zadok and me)
> agreed on a more or less final version of the whiteout patches. I haven't
> posted them yet since I know that Al Viro isn't convinced of the idea that
> they are actaully necessary. 

The union mount could *very* interesting for the containers (aka 
namespaces). If you create a container, you can share the same rootfs 
between  the different containers and make a COW for each container 
writing on its own filesystem, no ? Using together the mount namespaces, 
the union mount and the ro bind mount, can be very powerful IMHO.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-15 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-14 22:21 union mount status Daniel Lezcano
2008-10-15 19:11 ` Jan Blunck
2008-10-15 20:21   ` Daniel Lezcano [this message]
2008-11-21  7:29   ` Ian Kent
2008-11-28  8:37     ` Ian Kent

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