On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 8:28 AM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 09:07:27AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: >> So it became clear that we need a check at mount time to make sure >> d_type is supported otherwise error out. This will require users to >> do mkfs.xfs with ftype=1 to make progress. >> >> I think new defaults for mkfs.xfs are such that ftype=1 is set. I am >> not sure which version that change was made in. > > Dumb question - can we end up with empty workdir at that point? Because > if we do, the check would appear to return a false negative, no matter > what fs supports... ovl_workdir_create() creates a subdirectory of workdir ("work") so workdir itself won't be empty after that. If somebody else messes with workdir, then we are screwed anyway. Thanks, Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-unionfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html