Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:29:57 +0900 (WST) | From | Ian Kent <> | Subject | Re: union mount status |
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On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Jan Blunck wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, Daniel Lezcano wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > What is the status of this patchset ? > > Bharata Rao told me, no consensus was reached yet. > > After looking at Jan Blunk's ftp server, it looks like the latest > > patchset was for 2.6.25-mm1. Is anyone working on this patchset right now ? > > Not that I know of. > > The state is as follows: we (David Woodhouse, Bharata Rao, Erez Zadok and me) > agreed on a more or less final version of the whiteout patches. I haven't > posted them yet since I know that Al Viro isn't convinced of the idea that > they are actaully necessary. My plan was to solve the readdir() issues first, > because they are the biggest roadblock IMHO. Bharata worked on some glibc > readdir stuff but I don't know how that went.
I'm trying to work through applying your patches to a current kernel so I can have a decent look through them. Do you have a more recent version of the patches?
What are your current thoughts on the readdir() problem?
Ian
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