Valerie Aurora: > In writable overlays, every directory will be copied up to the top > writable overlay, so /u and /u/usr will both have the same st_dev. > The copy up happens on lookup, so a stat() will trigger this copy up. > A directory and a regular file in it will have different st_dev's, > though. Can you foresee any problems with that? You're right. I was confused with another implementation of UnionMount, sorry. I think I had to sleep well. 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