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It's a real shame that there's no comparison with aufs as a baseline. They discount it for not being in mainline, but of course neither is overlayfs. The overla
by asb 12y ago
It's a real shame that there's no comparison with aufs as a baseline. They discount it for not being in mainline, but of course neither is overlayfs. The overlayfs author has been trying for upstream inclusion for years, maybe he'll see luck with his request for inclusion in 3.18: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/29/350 https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/29/350
- riffraff 12y agoAlso, why isn't the solution "push for inclusion of aufs in upstream"? Red Hat should have some non-zero weight in kernel decisions, methinks.
- otterley 12y agoI suspect it's because Red Hat believes overlayfs is superior to aufs and so they'd rather advocate for that solution.
- asb 12y agoWell, it's more likely to get in given that nobody is really pushing aufs any more. overlayfs is less ambitious and less featureful, which can of course be a big advantage when trying to get it in to the kernel.