Re: unionfs, cow, and whiteout

[I recommend we direct future discussions in this thread to the unionfs ML. -ezk] In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Albrecht writes: [...] > I'm not sure we're talking about the same problem. What I do is union > mount a write enabled file system like tmpfs over a read only file > system like s

Re: unionfs, cow, and whiteout

On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 12:13 -0500, Erez Zadok wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Albrecht writes: > > Hi, > > > > I have a question about how unionfs handles file deletion when a write > > enabled file system is union mounted over a read only file system. For > > example, I do somethi

Re: unionfs, cow, and whiteout

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Albrecht writes: > Hi, > > I have a question about how unionfs handles file deletion when a write > enabled file system is union mounted over a read only file system. For > example, I do something like the following: > > mount -t unionfs -o dirs=/cow=rw:/rofs=

unionfs, cow, and whiteout

Hi, I have a question about how unionfs handles file deletion when a write enabled file system is union mounted over a read only file system. For example, I do something like the following: mount -t unionfs -o dirs=/cow=rw:/rofs=ro unionfs /mnt If I create and delete a file in /mnt which is not