LWN: Comments on "Kernel prepatch 3.18-rc1"

Kernel prepatch 3.18-rc1

viro — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 18:34:06 +0000

... except that this isn't what will go in. An interim branch with some fixes folded in is in vfs.git#ovl-experimental; there's more interesting stuff waiting on reply from Miklos...

Kernel prepatch 3.18-rc1

luto — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 17:14:54 +0000

The pull request is here:

http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20140929141457.GB5011@tucsk.pili...

Kernel prepatch 3.18-rc1

josh — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 16:30:54 +0000

I'm sure docker might be interested, but use cases for union filesystems date back far longer than that.

Kernel prepatch 3.18-rc1

jhoblitt — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 16:13:46 +0000

I'm surprised that this feature might be merged after only 4 years of incubation. ;) https://lwn.net/Articles/403012/

Kernel prepatch 3.18-rc1

jhoblitt — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 16:11:45 +0000

Is docker the driving use case?

Kernel prepatch 3.18-rc1

josh — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:01:03 +0000

> I'm very much still hoping to get overlayfs finally merged.

And there was much rejoicing!