On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Well, we could add configuration options to decide if and how to follow > and verify fh for non-dir, but: > > 1. We agreed that trying to follow fh for non-dir is a no-loose situation > for !redirect and hot cache case and a probable win for redirect with > cold case Okay. That also means that redirect is not actually needed for non-dir. Well, except for the weird case of having to reconstruct a reverse mapping after copying the layers in order to properly handle copy up of hardlinks on the lower layer. But lets not care about that for now (or ever, probably). > 2. For snapshots the behavior should be the same - > use the lower ino if you can find and hold lower inode > use upper ino otherwise (i.e. snapshots are not binding the inode > numbers forever) > > So I see no reason, going forward, to provide a user configuration > for the lookup of non-dir. Good. 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
