Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Nov 2014 13:41:57 +0100 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] overlay filesystem fixes for 3.18 | From | Miklos Szeredi <> |
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On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@urpla.net> wrote: > Dear Miklos, > > On Donnerstag, 20. November 2014 17:45:31 Miklos Szeredi wrote: >> >> The biggest change is to rename the filesystem from "overlayfs" to >> "overlay". This will allow legacy overlayfs to be easily carried by distros >> alongside the new mainline one. > > Would you kindly give a firm elaboration of this rename? > > Why would a distro kernel maintainer want to keep the external overlayfs > patches together with the now in kernel module? > > Isn't it enough to drop the external patches from distro kernels in order to > use it successfully or are there any semantic changes hidden that an admin > should know about?
See this thread:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/18/433
Thanks, Miklos
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