Re: [GIT PULL] overlayfs update for 4.9

From	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [GIT PULL] overlayfs update for 4.9
Date	2016-10-14 08:30 +0200
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On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 6:03 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 7:37 AM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
>>
>> Please pull from:
>
> No.
[...]
> It's too late in the merge window for this to be fixed up any more.
> This has been a painful enough merge window for me that I'm not going
> to play around with obviously buggy pull requests.
>

( Cannot say much to the BROKEN stuff. )
Be gracious/clement/merciful/mild...
I expect Miklos will fix that.
AFAICS, Linux v4.9 is getting a LTS version.
And think of the complex correlations in the (v)fs-trees.
Cannot say if there are better strategies to cook all that stuff together.
[ It was a pain in the ass to convince responsibles to get OverlayFS upstream. ]

- Sedat -

P.S.: It's a long time I played with SquashFS/OverlayFS.

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[GIT PULL] overlayfs update for 4.9 Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> - 2016-10-13 17:00 +0200
  Re: [GIT PULL] overlayfs update for 4.9 Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> - 2016-10-13 17:10 +0200
  Re: [GIT PULL] overlayfs update for 4.9 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-10-14 06:10 +0200
    Re: [GIT PULL] overlayfs update for 4.9 Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> - 2016-10-14 08:30 +0200
    Re: [GIT PULL] overlayfs update for 4.9 Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> - 2016-10-14 08:50 +0200
      Re: [GIT PULL] overlayfs update for 4.9 Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> - 2016-10-14 12:20 +0200

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