On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 02:09:14PM +0900, J. R. Okajima wrote: > If so, it has a big disadvantage for the layer-fs (or branch-fs) to have > to implement a new method for whiteout. > > Overlayfs implements whiteout as symlink+xattr which consumes an > inode. And you don't like it, right? > What I showed is another generic approach without xattr where the new > method to whiteout is unnecessary.
I'm yet to see the reason that would make implementing that method a big disadvantage, TBH... -- 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/
