Re: [PATCH 0/8] overlay filesystem: request for inclusion

Al Viro [off-list ref] writes:

Simple: please, *please* hold back until we have atomic_open mess
sorted out.  I'm fucking sick and tired of playing whack-a-mole in
that area - for nearly three years by now; we fortunately are very
close to getting this shit done right - the main remaining obstacle is
->d_revalidate() abuse by NFS and I seriously hope to get it over and
done with in a week or so.

Sure, that's a totally reasonable thing to ask.

What I ask in return is that you please make your development a bit more
open.

You know it's really annoying when you say something like the above and
then you say it year after year and apparently nothing changes.  If you
could share your work at least we could see what's going on and maybe
even help sort out some of the pieces.  If you are doing it in private,
it looks to be whack-a-mole for years to come.

And I've been asking for this many times, and never got a response.  At
least you could explain why it always has to be a large piece of work
(of excellent quality, btw) suddenly dropped into mainline without
anybody ever seeing any of it previously.

Thanks,
Miklos