On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 10:34 PM, J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Amir Goldstein: >> That would be names of files reserved for use by fs that user >> cannot use (i.e. .wh. files). Miklos did not mean that aufs handles >> lost+found, but that it lives without a problem with reserved filenames. > > Ah, reserving a filename prefix ".wh.". I see. > Thanx for the explanation. > > By the way, putting extra things under lost+found is not a good idea I > think. > Have you ever tried restoring files manually from lost+found? > When an administrator meets such case, he will digging lost+found and > copy the files one by one with guessing the filenames. If he is not sure > what the file is, then he may leave it under lost+found. > For such case, the entries related to overlayfs will be left, and the > administrator will spend some sleepless nights with thinking "What are > these files? How can I restore them?" > > Yeh, it's not a good idea. I needed to hear that out loud ;-) -- 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
