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

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Date:	Fri, 5 Aug 2011 00:11:34 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	apw@...onical.com, nbd@...nwrt.org, neilb@...e.de,
	hramrach@...trum.cz, jordipujolp@...il.com, ezk@....cs.sunysb.edu,
	ricwheeler@...il.com, dhowells@...hat.com, hpj@...la.net,
	sedat.dilek@...glemail.com, penberg@...nel.org, mszeredi@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] overlay filesystem: request for inclusion

On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 02:53:29PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi 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.
> 
> There's union-mounts which has a very similar feature set, if a
> completely different implementation, but that also is not being
> considered yet for merge.
> 
> So, Al, can you please share your thougths?

Simple: please, *please* hold back until we have atomic_open mess sorted
out.  I'm fucking sick and tired of playing whack-a-mole in that area -
for nearly three years by now; we fortunately are very close to getting
this shit done right - the main remaining obstacle is ->d_revalidate()
abuse by NFS and I seriously hope to get it over and done with in a week or so.
Once that is done and the damn thing is in #for-next, I'll ping you, dhowells
and probably aufs folks to start sorting this out, so that we would have that
finished before 3.2 opens.
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