Hello Okajima,

Thanks for the tmpfs patch! This is really good.

For the vfs-ino patch, it does not apply to linux-3.12.20.
However, this is not very important and applying this patch
manually is easy.

Guan

On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 6:35 PM,  <sf...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> o news
> - in aufs3-standalong.git, introduce two new patches, vfs-ino.patch and
>   tmpfs-ibitmap.patch.
>   aufs3-loopback.patch has existed since many years before, but not
>   described. Other two patches are introdued by the neighbourhood of
>   this commit.
>
>         There several other patches in aufs3-standalone.git. They are all
>         optional. When you meet some problems, they will help you.
>         - aufs3-loopback.patch
>           Supports a nested loopback mount in a branch-fs. This patch is
>           unnecessary until aufs produces a message such like "you may want 
> to try
>           another patch for loopback file".
>         - vfs-ino.patch
>           Modifies a system global kernel internal function get_next_ino() in
>           order to stop assigning 0 for an inode-number. Not directly related 
> to
>           aufs, but recommended generally.
>         - tmpfs-ibitmap.patch
>           Keeps the tmpfs inode number as the lowest value. Effective to 
> reduce
>           the size of aufs XINO files for tmpfs branch. Also it prevents the
>           duplication of inode number, which is important for backup
>           tools, aubrsync or other utilities. When you find aufs XINO files 
> for
>           tmpfs branch growing too much, try this patch.
>
>
> J. R. Okajima
>
> ----------------------------------------
> - aufs3-linux.git
>       aufs: describe several optional patches
>       aufs: add a postscript about mainline-ing
>
> - aufs3-standalone.git
>   ditto
>
> - aufs-util.git
>   none
>
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