On Mar 30 2007 15:38, Bharata B Rao wrote: > >In union mount approach we maintain this stacking information in the >dentry structure. When a filesytem is union mounted on a mountpoint, >the dentry of the mount root would hold a reference to the mountpoint >dentry as an overlaid dentry and these two dentries together form a >union stack. Any subsequent readdir operation on this union mounted >dentry would work on the overlaid dentry also thereby providing the >merged view of the two filesystems.
What about whiteouts? (I cannot remember whether Jan Blunk's paper mentioned it at all.) Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
