Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/14] Add the whiteout file type

2007-05-14 Thread Jan Blunck
On 5/14/07, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On May 14 2007 15:09, Bharata B Rao wrote: > >A white-out stops the VFS from further lookups of the white-outs name and >returns -ENOENT. This is the same behaviour as if the filename isn't >found. This can be used in combination with union m

Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/14] Add the whiteout file type

2007-05-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 14 2007 15:09, Bharata B Rao wrote: > >A white-out stops the VFS from further lookups of the white-outs name and >returns -ENOENT. This is the same behaviour as if the filename isn't >found. This can be used in combination with union mounts to virtually >delete (white-out) files by creating

[RFC][PATCH 3/14] Add the whiteout file type

2007-05-14 Thread Bharata B Rao
From: Jan Blunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Add the whiteout file type A white-out stops the VFS from further lookups of the white-outs name and returns -ENOENT. This is the same behaviour as if the filename isn't found. This can be used in combination with union mounts to virtually delete (whit