Hi, On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:32:12PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote:
> This patch makes unionfs try the pattern against the directories > immediately beneath stow/ , instead of doing it in the original way. > > Please note, however, that "*/bin" will not work anyways, because > unionfs checks the patterns only against the first-level > subdirectories of stow/ . This is not acceptable. If you change the behaviour in such a way that the main use case -- and probably the only relevant one at that -- doesn't work anymore, you could just as well rip it out alltogether... > To make this pattern work, unionfs would have to traverse all > subdirectories of stow/ , interpreting the pattern in a smart way and > consuming much more time than it does now. Well, not knowing how this stuff is handled, I can't tell: is it really not possible to implement proper wildcard matching of more than the first component efficiently? It's hard to imagine why an explicit '*' should be so much more troublesome than the implied one in the original implementation... -antrik-
