linux-kernel - Re: [UNIONFS] 00/29 Unionfs and related patches pre-merge review (v2)

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Date:	Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:08:08 +0000
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Erez Zadok <ezk@...sunysb.edu>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	hch@...radead.org, viro@....linux.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [UNIONFS] 00/29 Unionfs and related patches pre-merge review
	(v2)

On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 09:59:19AM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote:
> 
> Dear Linus, Al, Christoph, and Andrew,
> 
> As per your request, I'm posting for review the unionfs code (and related
> code) that's in my korg tree against mainline (v2.6.24-rc7-71-gfd0b45d).
> This is in preparation for merge in 2.6.25.

Huh?  There's still aboslutely not fix to the underlying problems of
the whole idea.   I think we made it pretty clear that unionfs is not
the way to go, and that we'll get the union mount patches clear once
the per-mountpoint r/o and unprivilegued mount patches series are in
and stable.


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