Mikhail Karpov, le jeu. 01 oct. 2026 13:57:18 +0700, a ecrit: > 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.
It's not very contradictory with the notion of union, no. Samuel
