[PATCH 0/4] Transparent Unionmount

2009-07-17 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, I'm posting the patch series which makes unionmount transparent. I hope the goal of all the patches will be clear from their commit messages, so won't enumerate what they do in this mail. The necessity of having non-transparent union mounts was discussed on the IRC and the possible debugg

[PATCH 1/4] Add the ``--no-mount'' option.

2009-07-17 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
>From da538ce70651fa552f8fce67d34e87c5c66be31c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergiu Ivanov Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:36:05 + Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Add the ``--no-mount'' option. * mount.c (transparent_mount): New variable. * mount.h (transparent_mount): Likewise. * netfs.c (netfs_append_args)

[PATCH 2/4] Go away when the mountee has been shut down.

2009-07-17 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
>From ba1a38092c3b79c5c4668c159a7a1640c6d94c51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergiu Ivanov Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:41:41 + Subject: [PATCH 2/4] Go away when the mountee has been shut down. * mount.c (mountee_control): New variable. (mountee_listen_port): Likewise. (start_mountee): Store th

[PATCH 3/4] Conditionally forward some fsys_* RPCs to the mountee.

2009-07-17 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
>From 92d45847b0c625b5bbb4b44e8f82494fc5551d02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergiu Ivanov Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:23:37 + Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Conditionally forward some fsys_* RPCs to the mountee. * mount.c (shutting_down): New variable. (mountee_server): Attempt to shutdown unionfs only

[PATCH 4/4] Supply the port to the real underlying node to the mountee.

2009-07-17 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
>From 973b0a6fd08d132306ddf40293062f3583f2980f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergiu Ivanov Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:24:57 + Subject: [PATCH 4/4] Supply the port to the real underlying node to the mountee. * mount.c (unionmount_proxy): Remove variable. (start_mountee): Remove parameter np.

Re: plan to work on user-level device drivers

2009-07-17 Thread Zheng Da
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Freitag, 17. Juli 2009 00:44:20 schrieb Da Zheng: >> It works. I have got a copy:-) >> I wonder where I can upload it to? > > Did they explicitely allow you to upload it? > > Sometimes people/organizations enforce the rule that pape

My absence next week

2009-07-17 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, I'm leaving for about 10 days. I won't be able to respond to E-mails or to arrive in IRC. I'm coming back on July 29th, in the morning, so this day counts as a working day ;-) I have backed up most of my information from blubber, so if something will require bringing blubber down to ashe

Re: plan to work on user-level device drivers

2009-07-17 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Freitag, 17. Juli 2009 14:12:37 schrieb Zheng Da: > No, I don't see any messages about it. The one I get seems to be a scan > copy. Maybe I shouldn't upload it. Either that or you could just ask the one who sent it to you. I'm sorry to play copyright monkey here. I don't really like the way

Re: Where to run the Hurd

2009-07-17 Thread unlimitedscolobb
Hello, I'm sorry for this very late reply :-( It turned out that I was busier than I considered myself to be :-( On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 08:51:11PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Thanks for your investigation, it's clearly useful! I actually enjoy doing this. It has been my dream for a long ti