On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 10:52:28AM -0500, Dan Fuhry wrote: > Add support for the RENAME_WHITEOUT and RENAME_EXCHANGE flags in > renameat2(). This brings us pretty close to having btrfs ready to be > an upper layer for overlayfs. (The last remaining issue is in > btrfs_sync_file, which I'm looking at next if I have time.)
The sync_file issue should be fixed by filipes' fix from today. > This includes Davide Italiano's implementation of RENAME_EXCHANGE. I > quickly pinged him on github [1] last week to confirm resubmission of > his patch which originally went to this list on 2 April 2015 and > didn't make it in. > > This is my first time submitting a kernel patch, I think I've covered > all the style recommendations, and also addressed Filipe David > Manana's review notes [2] on Davide Italiano's patch. Certainly let me > know if there's anything else that should be cleaned up. Thanks! The patch style looks, I've briefly tested it in fstests and it blows very quickly, the stacktraces are unreadable. So I could mismerge it or there's another reason. Anyway, I'm going to pick this patch for 4.7 and will add it to my for-next after the crashes are resolved. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
