On Jul 31 2007 12:36, Josef Sipek wrote: >[2] http://www.filesystems.org/unionfs-odf.txt >Instead, the new ODF code stores whiteouts as hardlinks to a special >(regular) zero-length file in odf (/odf/whiteout), and it stores opaqueness >information for directories in the inode GID bits in an ODF file system >(e.g., ext2, XFS, etc.) on the local machine. This avoids the name-space >pollution and avoids races with network file systems, while minimizing inode >consummation in /odf. Inode GID bits - are you reducing my 32 bits of gid_t to 31 bits? That does not work out either. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html