Mikhail Karpov, le jeu. 01 oct. 2026 06:47:57 +0700, a ecrit: > 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.
Ok, but then hurd's unionfs has more features than linux' unionfs, notably the stowing feature. Samuel
