Re: unionfs: stowing feature

2009-08-28 Thread Gianluca Guida
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:22 AM, wrote: > On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:42:41PM +0200, Gianluca Guida wrote: > >> At the time, I was actually in favor of a separate stowfs which were >> just using common code for unionfs, but politics and other rather >> meaningless reasons brought it into the way it

Re: unionfs: stowing feature

2009-08-28 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 03:37:23AM +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:07:18AM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:42:41PM +0200, Gianluca Guida wrote: > > > > I do agree that it's counter-intuitive. Please note that the stow > > > func

Re: unionfs Documentation

2009-08-28 Thread Gianluca Guida
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:37 AM, wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 01:07:27AM +0200, Gianluca Guida wrote: >> > This is a non-trivial problem. Other unionfs implementations >> > probably spent considerable time figuring out how to do it best. I >> > entreated Gianluca to check what over implementat

Re: unionfs Documentation

2009-08-28 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi Gianluca, On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 01:07:27AM +0200, Gianluca Guida wrote: > Hm, funny things happens while grepping past mail. Hehe... Nice to see you here :-) > > This is a non-trivial problem. Other unionfs implementations > > probably spent considerable time figuring out how to do it best

Re: unionfs: stowing feature

2009-08-28 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:42:41PM +0200, Gianluca Guida wrote: > At the time, I was actually in favor of a separate stowfs which were > just using common code for unionfs, but politics and other rather > meaningless reasons brought it into the way it is now. Really? That's interesting -- I

Re: unionfs: stowing feature

2009-08-28 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:07:18AM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:42:41PM +0200, Gianluca Guida wrote: > > I do agree that it's counter-intuitive. Please note that the stow > > functionality was mostly meant for the GNU system as a base for a -- > > rather complex I'

Re: unionfs: stowing feature

2009-08-28 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:38:26PM +0200, Gianluca Guida wrote: > On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Sergiu > Ivanov wrote: > > I wonder whether there is still the necessity to keep things as they > > are.  I can see that the files in which you are mentioned as the > > author date back to 2005