linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL -mm] Unionfs/fsstack/eCryptfs updates/cleanups/fixes

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Message-Id: <200709032126.47232.a1426z@gawab.com>
Date:	Mon, 3 Sep 2007 21:26:47 +0300
From:	Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>
To:	Erez Zadok <ezk@...sunysb.edu>
Cc:	"Josef 'Jeff' Sipek" <jsipek@...sunysb.edu>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, hch@...radead.org,
	viro@....linux.org.uk, bharata@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	j.blunck@...harburg.de
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL -mm] Unionfs/fsstack/eCryptfs updates/cleanups/fixes

Erez Zadok wrote:
> Al, we have back-ports of the latest Unionfs to 2.6.{22,21,20,19,18,9},
> all in http://unionfs.filesystems.org/.  Before we release any change, we
> test it on all back-ports as well as the latest -rc/-mm code base (takes
> over 24 hours straight to get through all of our regressions :-)

I am impressed, thanks!

It's probably a good idea to always point these backports out, whenever 
submitting patches against -mm.  Otherwise, people might forget.

> So we'd be happy to submit those patches to the latest stable kernel. 
> But, are you talking about VFS/ecryptfs patches (which are in the stable
> kernel), or are you talking about Unionfs (which is not)?

I'm talking about Unionfs, which seems like a rather critical feature to 
miss-out on.  BTW, did you ever get that oops-on-umount worked out?


Thanks!

--
Al

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