Re: unionfs: stowing feature

[Gianluca Guida]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Sergiu
Ivanov<unlimitedscolobb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, sorry, I should have asked *you* in the first place :-( Please,
> forgive my absent-mindedness :-(

Nah, it's OK. Thomas and antrik are the right guys to ask in general,
since they're following your work and the Hurd much more than I do.

> I'm glad you feel okay about my suggestion :-) However, I'm not sure I
> can understand correctly what you mean by ``remove this feature''?  Do
> you refer to pattern matching or to the stowing feature altogether?

Well, I think you're doing a very good job in keeping unionfs useful.
That's mostly your code (and your translator) now, so you should feel
free to do everything you want with it.

I think the stowing feature might be interesting. The pattern matching
feature has sense the way it is now because --stow is just a way to
tell "unify all subdirectories of the given one (as opposed to passing
them all as a parameter list, and adding them when creating a new
entry)", so all the pattern matching has to be done inside the
unionified directories.
It's your call, I think, to decide what to do with it.

Cheers,
Gianluca


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