Miklos, This is a prep work I have done some time ago to make room for some extra state flags on the dentry. I converted the boolean opaque field to a flag as an example. An example for more flags could be: - this is a copy up file which needs to get st_ino from lower - this is an O_TEMP copy up from open for read that needs to be linked to upper dir on open for write Amir Goldstein (2): ovl: store path type in dentry ovl: cram opaque boolean into type flags fs/overlayfs/namei.c | 10 ++++++---- fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h | 3 +++ fs/overlayfs/ovl_entry.h | 4 +++- fs/overlayfs/super.c | 1 + fs/overlayfs/util.c | 25 +++++++++++++++---------- 5 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) -- 2.7.4 -- 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