On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 01:15:36PM +0900, J. R. Okajima wrote: > +- whiteout is hardlinked in order to reduce the consumption of inodes > + on branch *blink* Whiteouts have no inodes at all. Filesystem has an additional kind of directory entries, recognizable as whiteouts. How they are done is up to filesystem in question. > +- kernel thread for removing the dir who has a plenty of whiteouts Again, implementation detail for individual filesystem. > +The whiteout in aufs is very similar to Unionfs's. That is represented > +by its filename. UnionMount takes an approach of a file mode, but I am > +afraid several utilities (find(1) or something) will have to support it. Why the devil should find(1) even see them? I really don't believe that it's a good idea to try making them fs-agnostic; it's an implementation detail of filesystem, with things like "is this directory empty?" very much belonging to the fs in question... I don't know; maybe it's my experience of dealing with umsdos that has badly soured me on that kind of approach, but IME this kind of schemes tend to be brittle as hell ;-/ -- 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
