Re: [UNIONFS] 00/29 Unionfs and related patches pre-merge review (v2) [LWN.net]

From:		Christoph Hellwig <hch-AT-infradead.org>
To:		Erez Zadok <ezk-AT-cs.sunysb.edu>
Subject:		Re: [UNIONFS] 00/29 Unionfs and related patches pre-merge review (v2)
Date:		Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:08:08 +0000
Message-ID:		<20080110150808.GA32080@infradead.org>
Cc:		torvalds-AT-linux-foundation.org, akpm-AT-linux-foundation.org, hch-AT-infradead.org, viro-AT-ftp.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel-AT-vger.kernel.org
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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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