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: 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

Re: unionfs: stowing feature

2009-08-24 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:23:38PM +0100, Gianluca Guida wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Sergiu > Ivanov wrote: > > > I'm glad you feel okay about my suggestion :-) However, I'm not sure I > > can understand correctly what you mean by ``remove this feature''?  Do > > you refer to

Re: unionfs: stowing feature

2009-08-24 Thread Gianluca Guida
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > Oh, sorry, I should have asked *you* in the first place :-( Please, > forgive my absent-mindedness :-( Nah, it's OK. Thomas and antrik are the right guys to ask in general, since they're following your work and the Hurd much more than I do.

Re: unionfs: stowing feature

2009-08-24 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, 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: > > Thomas, antrik, what do you think?  Could it be acceptable to give the > > stow pattern matching feature a more intuitive face? > > I am pretty sure they are favor

Re: unionfs: stowing feature

2009-08-23 Thread Gianluca Guida
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > I see...  It has never occurred to me that unionfs could be used in a > packaging system :-) There are things you don't really want to know about the Hurd. :-) > I wonder whether there is still the necessity to keep things as they > are.  I

Re: unionfs: stowing feature

2009-08-23 Thread Gianluca Guida
Hi Sergiu, 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'd say -- packaging system. The idea was that the first level after the stow directory was the package, and we were matching against pa

Re: unionfs: stowing feature

2009-08-23 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, Thank you for the swift response! 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'd say -- packaging system. > > Th

unionfs: stowing feature

2009-08-23 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, Recently I have been browsing the code implementing the stowing feature in unionfs it struck me that I cannot figure out the reason for it to be implemented in the way it is. Normally the stowing feature works as follows: one starts unionfs in the following way: $ settrans -a unionfs --