On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Right. The problem is when dir becomes impure due to rename between >> two getdents(2) calls. We can't call ovl_dir_reset() because the >> offset is not zero. We could do a "cache with head cut off" starting >> from the current offset in the dir and finish with that. Yeah, it's >> probably less complexity than trying to intercept the actor... > > On the other hand, we'll need to accommodate the native directory > indexing (i.e. seekdir(3) hell) in the cache, which is going to add to > complexity. Ugh. Another idea: we are allowed to omit directory entries added after the opendir/rewinddir. So if there was a simple way to filter out newly added entries which have origin then we are fine. 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
