On Thu, 1 Oct 2026 00:59:46 Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > I haven't looked at the details, but the description looks similar to
> > > the existing unionfs?
> >
> > To some extent, yes. You can find details about overlayfs in GNU/Linux
> > here: https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/overlayfs.html. This
translator
> > works in a similar way.
>
> Ok, but what do we do then? We don't really want to maintain two very
> similar translators.
Since overlayfs has replaced unionfs in GNU/Linux, it seems more appropriate
to adopt the same approach in GNU/Hurd. Furthermore, Docker relies on
overlayfs, so it would be highly beneficial if we could port it in the
future.
Thanks,
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Mikhail Karpov
