Bodo Eggert: > Do a hardlink if you can create a hard link, otherwise use a fresh inode > and use that for the next hardlink(s). Exactly. That's the approach aufs takes for whiteout and its brothers. 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