On Monday 02 June 2008, hooanon05@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I don't want you to call aufs users crazy who are using such policies. > By the way, how do you think link(2) or rename(2)? When the source file > exists on the lower writable branch, do you think copy-up is the best > way? Or do you think all lower branches should be readonly? > There is an exception in aufs's branch-select policy. That is > link/rename case. When the source file exists on a writable branch, aufs > tries link/rename it on that branch in every policy. Do you think it > best to do it on the top branch only? Yes, I tend to consider the union case identical to the cross-mount move or link, so I'd expect the kernel to return errno=EXDEV and user space to handle this by doing the appropriate copy/unlink as it does for other cases already. Arnd <>< -- 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
