Hi Gianluca, On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 01:07:27AM +0200, Gianluca Guida wrote:
> Hm, funny things happens while grepping past mail. Hehe... Nice to see you here :-) > > This is a non-trivial problem. Other unionfs implementations > > probably spent considerable time figuring out how to do it best. I > > entreated Gianluca to check what over implementations do, instead of > > trying to reinvent the wheel -- but he wouldn't listen :-( > > Olaf. When would have this happened? I can't say exactly. But I distincly remember that you discussed the semantics of file deletion in unionfs on IRC with some others. Various ideas were thrown around, problems pointed out -- it was obvious that this is really a complex topic hard to figure out. And it appeared to me that every implementation of unionfs must face the very same problems. So I suggested checking how others have solved it -- surely the popular implementations in Linux etc. have spent a lot of thought on that, and the conclusions shouldn't be any different for us... I hope the way I wrote this above wasn't offensive -- I see now that it might be :-( -antrik-