On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There is really no good reason why not to make all > directories opaque from birth. > > The benefit of making directiories opaque on creation > is that lookups can stop short when they reach the > original created directory. > > The best case is overlay with N layers, performing > lookup for first level directory, which exists only in upper. > In that case, there will be only one lookup instead of N. That's true for directories created in a merged dir. Directories created in an opaque dir get no such advantage and creating the xattr will consume space and time. So this should at least be conditional on the state of the parent. 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
