commit 9368866a6fada1c39fe2fa514d30a89e5ff8151f
Author: Yiannis Pericleous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue Apr 10 13:59:28 2007 -0400
updated odf.txt to reflect how hardlinks and opaqueness are now stored
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/unionfs/odf.txt
b/Documentation/filesystems/unionfs/odf.txt
index 06bd9ec..4e82600 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/unionfs/odf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/unionfs/odf.txt
@@ -47,8 +47,9 @@ they prevent anyone from actually creating a file which may
start with
".wh". Also, writing those special files over various file systems,
especially network file systems, introduces various races.
-Instead, the new ODF code stores whiteouts and opaque directories as inode
-bits in an Ext2 file system on the local machine. This avoid the name-space
+Instead, the new ODF code stores whiteouts as hardlinks to a special file in
+odf (odf/sb/whiteout) and opaqueness information for directories in the inode
+gid bits in an Ext2 file system on the local machine. This avoid the
name-space
pollution and avoids races with network file systems.
2. Inode numbers must be persistent indefinitely.
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