Re: unionfs: stowing feature

[Sergiu Ivanov]

Hello,

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:23:38PM +0100, Gianluca Guida wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Sergiu
> Ivanov<unlimitedscolobb@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.

Thank you for the praise :-)
 
> 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.

I believe the stowing feature is very nice indeed and I'm absolutely
for keeping it.  As for the pattern matching feature, I'll wait for
feedback from Thomas and antrik, too, since they are the guys to make
the corresponding design decisions.

Regards,
scolobb