Re: [PATCH v2] ovl: create directories inside merged parent opaque

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On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 5:57 PM, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The benefit of making directories opaque on creation
> is that lookups can stop short when they reach the
> original created directory, instead of continue lookup
> the entire depth of parent directory stack.
>
> 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.

I split this up, changed it around a bit and pushed the result to
overlayfs-next.

Thanks,
Miklos
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