Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Jan 2007 05:43:33 -0500 | From | Josef Sipek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/24] Unionfs: Documentation |
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:53:45AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 07:03:35PM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote: > > However, I must caution that a file system like ecryptfs is very different > > from Unionfs, the latter being a fan-out file system---and both have very > > different goals. The common code between the two file systems, at this > > stage, is not much (and we've already extracted some of it into the "stackfs > > layer"). > > I think that's an very important point. We have a chance to get that > non-fanout filesystems right quite easily - something I wished that would > have been done before the ecryptfs merge - while getting fan-out stackable > filesystems is a really hard task.
Hard or harder?
> In addition to that I know exactly > one fan-out stackable filesystem that is posisbly useful, which is unionfs.
RAIF is another fan-out stackable fs with much more complex logic. (Just the other day, I saw an announcement for a new version on fsdevel.)
Josef "Jeff" Sipek.
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