-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Kiszka [mailto:jan.kiszka@...]
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2017 10:50 PM
To: Daniel Sangorrin; 'Ben Hutchings'; '小口琢夫 / KOGUCHI，TAKUO'
Cc: cip-dev@...
Subject: Re: [cip-dev] Kernel feature support - filesystems and networking

On 2017-06-01 15:30, Daniel Sangorrin wrote:

-----Original Message-----
From: cip-dev-bounces@... [mailto:cip-dev-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Ben Hutchings
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 7:16 PM
To: 小口琢夫 / KOGUCHI，TAKUO
Cc: cip-dev@...
Subject: Re: [cip-dev] Kernel feature support - filesystems and networking

On Mon, 2017-05-29 at 02:40 +0000, 小口琢夫 / KOGUCHI，TAKUO wrote:

Hi Ben,

Thanks for your efforts.

- overlayfs (CONFIG_OVERLAY_FS)

OVERLAY_FS is one of the features Hitachi wants to use.
I hope you look into this further and I would like to know if other members also want it.

Yes, I thought this was popular. I think we will have to find some way
to support it.

During the CIP TSC meeting I proposed using Ubuntu kernel backports.
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/ubuntu-xenial.git/log/fs/overlayfs

What do you think?

Did overlayfs folks looked at/commented on this already? Ideally,
maintainers should have at least a rough look on our backports whenever
possible.

The Ubuntu LTS kernels contain patches back ported by them from upstream and
their own patches which are usually prefixed by UBUNTU. UBUNTU patches are often
based on BUG reports on launchpad.

As for overlayfs, it seems that UBUNTU has cherry-picked quite a few patches by
the main maintainer Miklos Szeredi. UBUNTU patches were mostly added by Seth Forshee
but I couldn't find any review online.

I think it would be nice to have a rough overlook by the maintainers. And we should also
test them ourselves thoroughly. For example, running LXC with overlayfs.

Thanks,
Daniel