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SubjectRe: [RFC] VFS: FS CoW using redirection
On Sat, 26 August 2006 22:05:21 +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
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> So what was the rejecting theme?

I don't believe there was one. Jan simply didn't push much, so noone
was forced to resist him. And noone else needed union mount enough to
push Jan.

> > Or you can give Unionfs a try: http://www.unionfs.org
>
> UnionFS is great, but it incurs additional overhead, as it lives below the
> real VFS. What could be really great, is to move some basic functionality
> abstractions from UnionFS into VFS proper.

Welcome to Jan's work. :)

If you want to make this vision happen, one of the missing pieces is a
method for copyup, an in-kernel copying routine. Unionfs needs is
just the same as Jan's patches do and in the past Linus didn't like my
approach of using sendfile for it. You could take a stab at the
splice code and see how that can be used for copyup.

Jörn

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