Hi, On Thu, Oct 01, 2026 at 01:57:18PM +0700, Mikhail Karpov wrote: > On Thu, 1 Oct 2026 08:25:44 Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > > 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. > > I don't know as much about unionfs as I do about overlayfs, but if this > functionality is highly desirable and doesn't violate overlayfs's > architectural design, I could try adding it to the translator.
Maybe the overlay/union/stow functionality should be wrapped in another library and then the translators just call those according to their user interface? Michael
