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Re: [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O

From Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O
Date 2016-01-15 10:30 +0100
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On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 07:52:00AM -0800, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> > Please write your stacked features as kernel drivers.
> 
> Could you explain in more detail? I think I don't understand either the
> why, the how, or what you mean with driver in this context (not sure
> which one it is). 
> 
> 
> (I'm not the original submitter but interested in this)


If someone is doing stacked pass through I/O, which basically is some
form of unioning or file hiding it should be using overlayfs or a new
kernel stackable file system.  That's not to say it could be prototyped
entirely in userspace, but it's not something we should add any bypasses
for.

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[PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O Nikhilesh Reddy <reddyn@codeaurora.org> - 2016-01-14 01:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-01-14 06:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O Nikhilesh Reddy <reddyn@codeaurora.org> - 2016-01-14 20:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-01-14 20:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-01-15 17:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> - 2016-01-15 19:00 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O Nikhilesh Reddy <reddyn@codeaurora.org> - 2016-01-15 20:30 +0100
              Re: [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> - 2016-01-15 22:40 +0100
              Re: [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-01-15 22:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-01-15 22:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-01-15 23:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O Nikhilesh Reddy <reddyn@codeaurora.org> - 2016-01-19 04:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O Nikhilesh Reddy <reddyn@codeaurora.org> - 2016-01-21 00:30 +0100
              Re: [fuse-devel] [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O Hans Beckerus <hans.beckerus@gmail.com> - 2016-01-15 23:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-01-14 09:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> - 2016-01-14 17:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-01-15 10:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O Jann Horn <jannhorn@googlemail.com> - 2016-01-19 04:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O Nikhilesh Reddy <reddyn@codeaurora.org> - 2016-01-21 00:10 +0100

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