On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 20:39, Valerie Aurora <vaurora@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > +git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/val/e2fsprogs.git > + > +Currently, whiteout directory entries are not returned to userland. > +While the directory type for whiteouts, DT_WHT, has been defined for > +many years, very little userland code handles them. Userland will > +never see fallthru directory entries. This may be a dumb question (I must admit I did only very little research), but how does one cleanup the topmost layer of whiteouts and fallthroughs, so that the entries of lower layer(s) can be made visible again? -- 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