[Ovlfs-user] avfs, ovlfs, lufs - cooperation for Linux virtual filesystems

[Massimiliano G. <ma...@li...>]

Hello to all the people in the three mailing lists
(avf-user, ovlfs-user, lufs-users)

my name is Massimiliano Ghilardi and I have used avfs for some time.

I searched the web (and Sourceforge in particular) for Linux virtual filesystem
projects, and I found also the other two: ovlfs and lufs.

I have seen technical differences among them, yet all the three projects
share very similar goals.

I have two questions:

1. did any of you already know about the others?

2. do you think it would be a good idea to cooperate one another?


I have really appreciated avfs when I used it, and I would like to
see further features added to it (replicating fs, shadowing and
copy-on-write, ...), which some of the other projects already have.

I would like Linux virtual filesystems to become something standard,
but being a free software writer myself, I see the current fragmentation
on Linux virtual filesystems as quite a waste...


Regards,


                        Massimiliano Ghilardi