Michal Suchanek: > Is there any reason why a directory cannot be whiteout? Just to reduce consuming inodes. > It may possibly hide a XXXXXXXX file if it is later added to the lower layer. No, because it is "doubly" whiteouted. > Just as whiteout has totally different file-type from a file. It's > specific to the union. Ok, we are talking about different whiteouts. 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
