Goswin von Brederlow: > > Miklos Szeredi: > >> The most interesting is the directory and metadata deltas, which do > >> make a delta-fs like implementation much more effective and nicer as a > >> dumb union type filesystem. Mind, unionfs and aufs are rapidly > >> acquiring non-union traits, like inode number storage, virtual hard > >> links (not to speak of whiteouts). Which makes them all the more > >> hackish, I much prefer a conceptually clean solution. ::: > Use a filename -> inode indirection and delta based on inode > numbers. Although the you also have to consider the device id in case > there are multiple filesystem mounted in your read-only branch. So > filename -> (dev, inode). Agreed. While Miklos seems to dislike the inum table, it is necessary I think. J. R. Okajima -- 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
