linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] overlayfs update for 4.9

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Date:   Fri, 14 Oct 2016 08:19:53 +0200
From:   Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-unionfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] overlayfs update for 4.9

On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 6:03 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 7:37 AM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu> wrote:
>>
>> Please pull from:
>
> No.
[...]
> It's too late in the merge window for this to be fixed up any more.
> This has been a painful enough merge window for me that I'm not going
> to play around with obviously buggy pull requests.
>

( Cannot say much to the BROKEN stuff. )
Be gracious/clement/merciful/mild...
I expect Miklos will fix that.
AFAICS, Linux v4.9 is getting a LTS version.
And think of the complex correlations in the (v)fs-trees.
Cannot say if there are better strategies to cook all that stuff together.
[ It was a pain in the ass to convince responsibles to get OverlayFS upstream. ]

- Sedat -

P.S.: It's a long time I played with SquashFS/OverlayFS.