On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 14:40 +0200, Jan Blunck wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, Valerie Aurora wrote: > > > Add support for fallthru directory entries to ext2. > > > > XXX - Makes up inode number for fallthru entry > > XXX - Might be better implemented as special symlinks > > Better not. David Woodhouse actually convinced me of moving away from the > special symlink approach. The whiteouts have been implemented as special > symlinks before. I certainly asked whether you really need a real 'struct inode' for whiteouts, and suggested that they should be represented _purely_ as a dentry with type DT_WHT. I don't much like the manifestation of that in this patch though, especially with the made-up inode number. (ISTR I had other jffs2-specific objections too, which I'll dig out and forward). -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx Intel Corporation -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
