On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I wanted to run another idea by you. > Instead of storing the overlay inode index under workdir/inodes, > store it under upperdir/lost+found. > > Crazy? think about it.. > - User applications won't touch that dir, because it is already reserved > for use by mkfs/fsck tools. OTOH lost+found is just a plain old directory that is handled by userspace tools only. No kernel fs driver treats /lost+found specially. So putting this in upperdir would be a namespace pollution issue and generally we'd like to avoid that. Aufs has lived with that sort of thing, and probably it wouldn't be a problem in practice. But I think that if we can avoid namespace confusion then we should. 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
