Re: [GIT PULL] overlay filesystem fixes for 3.18

From: Hans-Peter Jansen
Date: Fri Nov 21 2014 - 09:52:19 EST


On Freitag, 21. November 2014 13:41:57 Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@xxxxxxxxx> 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?
> >
>
> See this thread:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/18/433

Okay, thanks. I must have missed this one. "overlay" is as good as a name can
be, IMHO.

Cheers,
Pete
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