Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:31:52 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: ozawa@ongs.co.jp, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, 'Daichi GOTO' <daichi@freebsd.org>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "'Mars G. Miro'" <marsgmiro@gmail.com> Subject: Re: patchset-9 release (Re: [unionfs][patch] improvements of the unionfs - Problem Report, kern/91010) Message-ID: <20060317173152.GB27140@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060317140436.8ap0h9608os8s8w8@netchild.homeip.net> References: <E1FKB02-0004Kv-Tl@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> <20060317140436.8ap0h9608os8s8w8@netchild.homeip.net>
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--GID0FwUMdk1T2AWN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 02:04:36PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> wrote: >=20 > >>I'd really like to see this in 6-STABLE. >=20 > >just a 'me too'. I've been running with the patch(under 6.1) and it's > >definitely > >better than the panics with the unpatched version. in other words, > >IMHO, it does not break anything, and it actualy fixes somethings. >=20 > Compare the mount options the current implementation and the completely > rewritten implementation of unionfs is able to understand. There is a > difference. Since it would break a documented interface, we can't MFC it. > Except maybe you can prove that the option in question doesn't work at al= l, > and therefore isn't used anywhere. Then we could MFC it, since we wouldn't > break something for someone. IMO there's absolutely no barrier to getting this one day merged to 6.x, since unionfs is documented to not work in any FreeBSD release since 2.x or earlier. Kris --GID0FwUMdk1T2AWN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEGvKIWry0BWjoQKURAjC2AJ4zgFo9Xev49adP4KY3kuxk5tuIDgCff3OE tkPCaI02kz6y4CL2s3pvXa4= =g9cx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GID0FwUMdk1T2AWN--
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