[email protected], le jeu. 01 oct. 2026 11:38:39 +0000, a ecrit:
> October 1, 2026 at 2:25 AM, "Samuel Thibault" <[email protected] 
> mailto:[email protected]?to=%22Samuel%20Thibault%22%20%3Csamuel.thibault%40gnu.org%3E
>  > wrote:
> 
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> > 
> > 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
> 
> I'm way out of the loop here, but does unionfs work on the Hurd?
> 
> If I recall correctly, there does not exist a /hurd/unionfs on debian Hurd...
> 
> Or said another way, I've wanted to try unionfs on the Hurd, and I unionfs 
> never
> seems to be installed by default...

I thought it was in the hurd-recommended package, but apparently not.

It is available in 

git clone git.savannah.gnu.org:/srv/git/hurd/unionfs.git/

Samuel

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