On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Valerie Aurora wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 03:20:58PM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote: > > But, this does *not* then eliminate the need to have whiteouts supported in > > every major f/s that can serve as the writeable layer, right? You still > > need those. > > Yes. The tradeoff is namespace pollution vs. some new code, and the > consensus is pretty firmly against namespace pollution. You could also use the xattr namespace (trusted.*) to hide that pollution. Lots of filesystems already support xattrs, so this might be easier still than adding new fs features. Thanks, Miklos -- 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
