Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Jul 2011 09:55:50 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/7] overlay filesystem: request for inclusion | From | "Sorin Faibish" <> |
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On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 04:23:17 -0400, Ric Wheeler <ricwheeler@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/08/2011 01:57 PM, Miklos Szeredi wrote: >> "Hans-Peter Jansen"<hpj@urpla.net> writes: >> >>> All kodos to you, Miklos. While I'm still missing a major feature from >>> overlayfs that is a NFS as upper layer, it provides a fairly good >>> start. A commitment from you, that such an extension is considered for >>> inclusion - given, that it appears one day - is appreciated. Also, >>> since xattr support is available for NFS, >> AFAIK development of generic xattr support on NFS stopped some time ago. > > Hi Miklos, > > There is a proposed (at the IETF) standard called "labelled NFS" that > would allow the protocol to handle xattrs. Will be included in NFSv4.2. And we are already very close to a good I-D. Not sure that xattr change mentioned here will be included. You can look at the current I-D at: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-quigley-nfsv4-labeled/
/Sorin
> > It has not set the world on fire in terms of enthusiasm, but has been > making some progress. We have patches from Dave Quigley that did work, > but need to resolve the standards issues I suspect before it could make > progress upstream... > > Ric > >>> it would be nice to outline, what is missing for such an >>> implementation from overlayfs's POV. >> Allow using namspace polluting xattr replacements, such as aufs is >> doing. >> >> But why? Why is it better to do the overlaying on the client instead of >> the server? >> >> Thanks, >> Miklos >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" >> in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" > in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >
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