On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 03:54:14PM +0000, David Howells wrote: > > If we're going to be adding a new rename inode op, can we make it take a flag > to white out the source for union type things? This would mean that > rename-and-white-out can be done atomically.
That is an option, yes. Regarding whiteouts, I raised a couple of questions that nobody answered yet, so let me ask again. - If a filesystem containing whiteouts (fallthroughs, etc...) is mounted as not part of a union, how are these special entities represented to userspace? - Can the user remove them? Thanks, Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
