On Fri, 8 October 2004 21:13:34 +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 01:37:30PM -0400, Matt Ayres wrote:
> > The guy who was going to work on it disappeared.  
> 
> hmm, did he?

In a way.  Cowlinks Work For Me(tm), so my priorities shifted
somewhat.  In January I'll fine more time again.

> > As far as alternatives, 
> > http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/project-unionfs.html.  It was supposed to
> > be released when it was in Linux Journal... not sure what happened
> > there.  The problem I had with it was re-linking identical files using
> > something such as unify-dirs.  Obviously I haven't played with it, but
> > it doesn't seem like that would be possible.
> 
> anyway, I guess we will continue with the CoW
> stuff, and I hope that J�rn is still willing
> to help ...

Sure.  Specific small requests should get dealt with relatively
quickly.

Akpm and Linus didn't buy the infrastructure for cowlinks yet, so
those patches need a little more work.  Specifically the various
copyfile() layers should also work for cifs.

J�rn

-- 
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty.  I think
only how to solve the problem.  But when I have finished, if the
solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller
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