On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Miklos Szeredi <mik...@szeredi.hu> wrote: >> >> I would suggest that whiteouts appear as otherwise negative dentries and that >> they don't appear in getdents(). > > I'd argue that this is an administration nightmare. E.g. what if the > a backup needs to be made of the rw layer?
The major issue is user space support. So what do others that support this do? Looking at the gitweb for ls.c in coreutils, we find: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=src/ls.c # ifdef DT_WHT case DT_WHT: type = whiteout; break; # endif so that's presumably what we should use. Linus -- 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/
