Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Mar 2013 05:13:23 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/9] overlay filesystem: request for inclusion (v17) |
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On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 02:09:14PM +0900, J. R. Okajima wrote:
> If so, it has a big disadvantage for the layer-fs (or branch-fs) to have > to implement a new method for whiteout. > > Overlayfs implements whiteout as symlink+xattr which consumes an > inode. And you don't like it, right? > What I showed is another generic approach without xattr where the new > method to whiteout is unnecessary.
I'm yet to see the reason that would make implementing that method a big disadvantage, TBH...
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