On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 03:49:07PM +0200, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote: > Linux-VServer patch adds 2 new flags: barrier and iunlink. > With recent changes in -git (filestreams), XFS now lacks di_flags bits > to add these. > iunlink flag adds Copy-on-Write semantics to hard links, while barrier > flag signifies a filesystem barrier no virtual context can pass. > > I'd like to know how to possibly resolve this problem w/o negatively > impacting performance (especially of iunlink) or changing on-disc > format in an incompatible way, as well as being more future-proof.
A while back, I mentioned that it would be nice to have a whiteout inode flag (I've since changed my mind) but the answer I got from Dave Chinner, et. al., was to use xattrs. Josef 'Jeff' Sipek. -- If I have trouble installing Linux, something is wrong. Very wrong. - Linus Torvalds - 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/