| Date | Wed, 8 Jun 2011 15:32:08 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/7] overlay filesystem: request for inclusion |
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On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 14:46:13 +0200 Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
> I'd like to ask for overlayfs to be merged into 3.1.
Dumb questions:
I've never really understood the need for fs overlaying. Who wants it? What are the use-cases?
This sort of thing could be implemented in userspace and wired up via fuse, I assume. Has that been attempted and why is it inadequate?
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