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 -- 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